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Ep 209 - Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson

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The Complexity of Language

There's this persistent belief that the simple natural like stripped down form of something is somehow inherently superior. languages get more complicated but for a good reason I don't know Andrew says. People fetishize simple things and pure things sure yeah, he writes. They form ideological movements around it while not really considering why the system isn't like that in the first placeAndrew: In the future when information is one of the few things that is valuable  the way that information spreads becomes very important.

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