The work of John Holland, Melanie Mitchell, Geoffrey West, most anyone at the Sante Fe Institute.

Happy to see Rorty showing up on hn. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature is a must read. Even if you disagree with his views, the value comes in hearing out one strand in the lineage of Kuhn.

Your adoption of a vague, hand-wavey, nonsensical tone as a performative critique of the article was not lost on me, well done. Comments like this show the true potential of the comment section as a media for critical discourse. It seems commentors often forget the style of their words can carry forward an argument just as well as the content. Again, well done. I've taken this as inspiration and a challenge to be more thoughtful and creative with the style of my arguments.

Either this is satire, or you've completely missed his point. There is little-to-no hand wavyness in the response; He flat out describes the article as pretentious, bloviating non-sense.

I thought so as well, I hope to see more answers to this post.

I don't know if it is mainstream or not, but idn magazine is a great design mage; see here: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://....

If I have to update a file programmatically when I make certain modifications to a codebase I'll write a script that automates the update.

Let's not forget constructivism. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mathematics-constructive/