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    A claim about practical limits grounded in present engine... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Parallel algorithms that require exponentially many processors relative to input size are of little practical significance

    A claim about practical limits grounded in present engineering bounds conflates empirical limitation with principled impossibility.

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    • 1.History shows repeated cases where engineering limits were overcome (flight, computation), proving current bounds don't reflect principled impossibility.
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    • 2.Confusing 'we cannot do X now' with 'X is impossible in principle' commits a logical error between contingent and necessary claims.
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    • 3.Unknown future technologies may bypass current constraints, making present engineering bounds epistemic limits, not metaphysical ones.
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    • 1.Some engineering limits reflect genuine physical laws (thermodynamics, relativity), not mere present technical capability gaps.
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    • 2.Dismissing empirical limits as mere 'engineering bounds' risks unfalsifiability—any failure to achieve something gets attributed to insufficient future innovation.
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    • 3.Practical limits often constrain what's economically or physically viable, which meaningfully restricts possibility even if not logically impossible.
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