This piece highlights something we’ve largely forgotten. Progress comes from compressing reality into provisional structures, not from mistaking measurement for understanding. Analogy is mechanism that lets new domains become thinkable before they’re formalizable. The failure mode is refusing to notice where the story breaks and what that break is trying to reveal.
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This piece highlights something we’ve largely forgotten. Progress comes from compressing reality into provisional structures, not from mistaking measurement for understanding. Analogy is mechanism that lets new domains become thinkable before they’re formalizable. The failure mode is refusing to notice where the story breaks and what that break is trying to reveal.