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Rule by Strategy

Hi,I'm trying to find out if there has been any research into rule by strategy.Now that we can encode a strategy into a computer it should be possible for us to explore strategic systems that are larger than one person's thoughts.This could help us with some thorny problems like climate change and AI risk.I'm using the definition of strategy from this video...

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Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project on Monday September 12, 2022 @09:52AM (#32810239)
It seems like there could be a nice middle man software project. Something that translated the non-standard compliant code on the web to something more standard compliant, and then you could have many different browsers each doing different things with the standard html it output. I wonder if such a tool is extractable from current projects? Disclaimer: I am not a browser scientist.
Re:Ten years against division of labor in software on Saturday January 22, 2022 @03:35PM (#30040578)
As someone who deals with APIs, I understand the point of abstraction.

But when you start to deal with performance problems, a high level view of the internals can be invaluable for finding the problem.

Something like a CRC diagram is invaluable

http://www.agilemodeling.com/artifacts/crcModel.htm

To clarify, this then allows you to look inside of the API (to bunch of things talking over more APIs, yay microservices). Then you can see which bit might be causing the issue with the bit of the larger black box you are talking to