Situated, authentic things don't scale.

· Bits and Bobs 6/30/25
  • Situated, authentic things don't scale.
    • Scale requires quantization, and that requires distillation.
    • In capturing some dimensions, it must miss others.
    • To scale you need to erode the soul.
      • To distill out the nuance and get just the quantitative components.
    • If you later care about some dimensions that were denatured from the data, you can't recover it.
    • Which dimensions matter is a kaleidoscopic, fractal, ever-changing thing.