"Back pressure" is already a term widely used in computing for something entirely different: https://schmidscience.com/what-does-back-pressure-in-compute...

I have the same argument with “crypto”

And web 3? ;)

I am not sure if I am missing something, since many people have made this comment, but isn't this in some ways similar to the shape of the traditional definition of back pressure, and not "entirely different"? A downstream consumer can't make its work through the queue of work to be done, so it pushes work back upstream - to you.

Yeah it's too bad the author chose that word. They are in to something though, is a useful way to think about this game.

This use of the term “back pressure” is pretty confusing in a computer science context.

Yeah, I spent way too long trying to think of how what the author was talking to was related to back pressure... I had a very stretched metaphor I was going with until I realized he wasn't talking about back pressure at all

Back pressure is not a good name for this. You already listed one that makes more sense - “feedback”

Others have pointed out the incongruity of back pressure here, I would have loved “feedback”.

I thought you are talking about back pressure pipes in my housing complex.

I’ve been wondering why I can’t use it to generate electricity.