Noticed it kept using the term 'resonator' or 'resonance', decided to navigate to a page for 'resonance cascade' as a joke, and discovered this fantastically broken article: https://halupedia.com/resonance-cascade
Hear, hear! I honestly think the obsession with cryptography and security has caused us to lose much of what is simply fun about technology. We have grown so used to the assumption that everyone involved is a corporate player and that fools must be kept insulated that we have left no room for play.
The concept is interesting, but I'm getting a lot of red flags from this - there's no experimental data or proof-of-concept work at all, which makes this feel more like a blue-sky "Look what we could do if we could arrange atoms however we wanted!" pipe dream in the Drexlerian mode. Something about the writing style's also pinging my LLM radar, which while not disqualifying in-and-of-itself is very discouraging in combination with the other funkiness. The chemistry and manufacturability strike me as questionable in particular, and I'm not convinced the physics of reading and writing are nearly as clean as the author seems to think.
(I'm also unclear how the bit is supposed to actually flip under the applied electric charge without the fluorine and carbon having to pass through each other.)
> Write-Only Code is not a prediction about what we should want. It is a description of what happens when software production scales beyond human attention.
Have we considered whether it's even a good idea to produce software at scales beyond human attention? I'm beginning to suspect that, in terms of the net amount of economic effort and sheer quantity of software produced, we are already creating simply too much software relative to the amount of economic effort we put into hardware, construction, and human capital. Most human needs and desires can only be met through manipulation of atoms, and it seems as though we've largely refocused on those which can be met through manipulation of numbers and symbols - not because anyone really wants their life to revolve around them to the exclusion of everything else - but because they're the easiest markets to profitably scale for the least amount of capital input.
"Downvote as disagreement" is such a pervasive pattern that I Find myself doing it automatically even when I know that's not what downvote is "supposed" to be for. I suspect it's because I'm more likely to view posts that I disagree with as being poorly thought-out.
This even extends to platforms where downvoting is not a thing - witness 4chan's struggles with "sage is not a downvote" ("sage" being a function which allowed you to reply to a thread without bumping it to the top and extending its lifespan - again, intended to mark a thread as low qualit) until they finally gave up and made saging invisible.
Given how thoroughly inescapable downvoting-to-disagree seems, I wonder if it might not be better to just declare defeat, allow downvotes and upvotes to mean nothing beyond a signal of protest or agreement, and have a separate "this comment is low quality / this comment is high quality" buttons.