Incommensurability
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Published on September 22, 2025 2:21 AM GMT

The King has a bow and arrow.

He understands exactly how they work, having made them in his youth as part of his training.

The King has a stealth aircraft with a nuclear bomb.

He understands the abstraction, but teams of thousands of people created it. At the bottom of the hierarchy a specialist understands the details of each component, but all actual implementation gets abstracted and combined long before it gets to the King.

The King has a hypersonic drone swarm.

He understands the abstraction, but AI designed most of it. AI created new materials, generated the airframe, wrote the software, and controls the swarm in flight. The AI explains the project …

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