Purity and Reality in programming and metaphysics - Pure imaginary functional programming is a bit like astral projection

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Introduction Purity and Reality are equally important in future functional programming. A Haskell researcher seeks to find algorithms which are functionally pure; That way, they can more quickly understand the architecture of a codebase, based on type signatures alone. Likewise, with the advent of large LMs, we must now think in terms of how ‘real’ a function is, and seek to separate what is real from imaginary. Characterising purity and reality in programming and metaphysics The machine The ha...