Thread by @amasad

Fascinating that infinitely complex systems can be constructed from ONE key component. Examples:

- NAND gate and computers
- Neuron and brains/minds

What other systems are like that?

When I was designing a debugger I figured that you could construct it from one operation: STEP_IN which returns stack and other info. Then everything else could be on top of that. E.g STEP_OVER is simply a series of STEP_IN until the stack is length is equal to the starting point

It’s fun to design systems by boiling it down to one thing. But it might not be practical (eg slow). Nonetheless it gives you a better grasp on the problem.

The universe seems to have a bias for conceptually simple things, despite messy implementations.

This is a good example and reminds of how LISP is *mostly* constructed out of functions. Even basic operations, lists, etc can be implemented using functions

https://twitter.com/itsarnavb/status/1474903006135078916