The Third Bit

If this post was more nuanced—paid more attention to shades of gray—it would be more truthful and more interesting.  It’s still both, though, and occasionally funny as well:

This entire problem space comes down to a single error in the metamathematical approach to computing, which is that the 1930s  metamathematicians were fascinated by the fact that they could represent  any data structure as a function. While this is true, to describe it as  perverse is an insult to perverts.

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