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The broader contexts could be this: look at this puzzle as a way for reinvent sorting as a delegation of operations (split + combine) instead of traditional "swapping" of values. As CPU arithmetic is faster then memory operations some real treasure may be hidden in this new approach.

"Most machine intelligence development involves a “fitness function”—something the program tries to optimize. At some point, someone will probably try to give a program the fitness function of “survive and reproduce”. Even if not, it will likely be a useful subgoal of many other fitness functions. It worked well for biological life."

Interesting, how this correlates with this Bible passage from Genesis: "God blessed them, and God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it' ".

Meanwhile other tech companies (just from the last 2 weeks):

- LinkedIn lays off 563 engineering roles

- Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%

- Meta to lay off employees in metaverse silicon unit on Wednesday

- Epic lay off 830 people thanks to “unrealistic” metaverse ambitions

Apparently they don't have such deep pockets...

Nice technical metaphor: "The first things worth writing down were the terms of deals—in what is perhaps a metaphor for the destructive nature of non-market conflict, some of the oldest writing we have consists of cuneiform tablets recording the terms of loans and forward commodities contracts. These were written on clay, which could be reused, but when a city was razed the fires would bake the clay, writing the contract from random-access memory to permanent storage."