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What's the relationship between abstraction and generality?

The Eric Normand Podcast

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Is the Plus Function More or Less Abstract?

The plus function is definitely more specific, right? Ah, it wouldi suppose you could make a nan gate out of the plus function. Maybe they're technically at the same level of generality. Not sure have to think about that. They're both abstract in their own ways. We don't want to get into too philosophical of a discussion here. It's totally not true. There's no more and less abstract. You can't compare the details that this layer is ignoring with the details thatthis layer is ignoring. I mean, it's a ridiculous question when you think about it. Like, what? How do you compare the two?

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