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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Do "super", "hyper", "ultra", "meta" actually mean anything different beyond just being "cool prefixes" that cycle in and out of favor either organically or suddenly when a major entrepreneur just comes along and names their entire ecosystem after one of them?
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
imo: super - superior (perhaps literally bigger, e.g. superlinear) meta - self observing, recursive (e.g. meta study) hyper - beyond ultra - very very
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Those meanings are real, but on the other hand... if the Superchain had been a Hyperchain, and hyperstructures had been ultrastructures, would anyone have noticed? 😛
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Infotech terminology is inherently like this and constantly reappropriating word meanings, because the words are metaphors for pure information abstractions. Consider: tree, hash, node, computer, peer, server, cloud, file, load, firewall…
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