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I wonder if you could use this to generate the fractal terrain by the ocean like in Sydney. We already have "artificial reefs". We have built beauty in the build environment (architecture), some in the natural environment (gardens, forests), but comparatively less when it comes to the ocean.

This is freakin' amazing! Such a glorious hack.

It'd be fun to build a pure CLI-based OS around this. Imagine opening apps by running `/www/github.com`

It seems we disagree on 6dos. I think it's a useful concept to anchor on, since you can predict the structure of your domain (social networks, renting) based on the size of the network, and then optimize your routing so you get to a certain node (a nice house to live) quickly. Or even in my case - realising there is a path in the first place.

I hope this translates more clearly into engineering terms. The original audience of this post was non-technical.

The challenge is that you might only need 6 hops to find that person you’re looking for (on average).

> It's trivial to work backwards through your life and reshape everything as a series of coincidences that got you to where you are.

What if you worked forwards based on this idea of coincidence engineering?

Haha, well you're right. The point of writing is to think. I never said it was going to be a scientific theory - and really, life is too complex a landscape to build a falsifiable theory anyways. We can still discuss anecdotes though.

Thank you for the linkout, I'll put it on my reading list.

Haha congratulations! You got it.