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A LessWrong post reflects on why important things — bodies, social movements, software — tend to decay, and argues a better question is why some things last as long as they do.

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“We sometimes wonder why important things fall apart, whether it’s human bodies being destroyed by aging, social movements succumbing to infighting, or software code bases accumulating cruft.”
LessWrong, 29 Oct 2026, 04:14.

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