If two problems have the same solution then you don't understand the problem.
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Can you elaborate on that?
Bitcoin fixes many problems 😄
Great example. Bitcoin enables transfer without violence, because it's all fully verifiable and has no physical manifestation, just cryptographic. Money is the main use case but there are others. That's how I understand the problem thus far and I may be wrong!
I think the concept is correlated to the observation that, as David Deutsch would say, a good explanation is one which is hard to change. This means that we only have a good theory of how something works on our hands whenever we cannot come up with an alternative theory with the same or greater explanatory power for the same set of problems we're trying to solve.
Similar to Interface Theory of Perception by Douglas Hoffman. It’s not about objective truth, it’s about fitness payoffs.
Two problems can have the same root cause, maybe you're just saying that we need to focus on and understand the root cause first.
Exactly.
That I can agree with.
Quoting Pirsig:
To tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible. The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government. There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.
Oh yeah! I gotta read that book again!