This thread about math reminds me of a fallacy I frequently see in systems design, where some people believe that, because they've created simple primitives, the resultant systems that are built on top will be simple and easy to reason about.
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It's like we're forever doomed to rediscover Anderson's "More is Different" again and again, Groundhog Day-style. cse-robotics.engr.tamu.edu/dshell/cs689/p