post · Corey Petty · tradition:
internal-corpus
The possibility-space of a sufficiently complex field is too vast to navigate or even perceive without deep competence — you have to become an expert before you can see how unnavigable your own field is (The Most Unknown; Wheeler’s lengthening shoreline; Dunning’s ‘to know that you don’t know something, you need to know something’; Shannon and Go game-tree sizes; Borges’ Library of Babel; Simon’s bounded rationality; Kauffman’s adjacent possible; Wolfram’s computational irreducibility; du Sautoy’s known unknowables). Two load-bearing moves for the book: ‘expertise is a compression of the abyss’ ties the compression machinery to the receiver-budget constraint; and the abyss is the experiential complement of the curse of expertise (the curse is depth that hasn’t seen the abyss). Closes by bounding optionality-vs-access — a finite, masterable artifact is a map, the abyss is the territory the map is of. Claude-assisted.
The book’s stance. primary internal source — supplies the abyss concept (compression-of-the-abyss; experiential complement of the curse of expertise).
Availability. Cited by reference; no local copy held in the repo.