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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A lot of writers (Borges, Umberto Eco, Lewis Carroll, and others) talk about this problem through an analogy, of a map that is so big and detailed that it represents its territory 1:1. Thus being useless.

  Those calls for additional nuance are a lot like asking for more details in a map. Eventually you need to prioritise, considering the scope and the purpose of the theory.

  Regarding aesthetics, mentioned around 5:00 - cue to the concept of elegance often involving things like “trying to do the most with the least”.

  Nota bene: the author of the article is not proposing turning everything into spherical cows, and ditching necessary complexity. The youtuber neither, nor me. 50 is still 50, even if “it’s either 0 or 100 lol lmao” would be simpler.

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