There’s an effect where faced with a high-dim reality, you make more progress by removing dimensions from models than by adding them. 2x2s are a good example. Another is indented thread UIs —> unindented streams. Conversations are high-d. Going from 1-2 = false sense of clarity.
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The thing is, people assume throwing away dimensions is the same as throwing away information. This is exactly backwards. By throwing away dimensions you collapse information onto a lower-dimensional projective plane and recover couplings lost in the dimensional separation.
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More dimensions add legibility not information. They discard information.
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Search is another example. When information gets rich enough discard fo,der and tag hierarchies. Just search.
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