Reality has surprisingly little detail
There is no such thing as a complex system
Every system has one or two driving forces, otherwise it’d fall apart under its own complexity
Complexity science is an excuse for not taking the obvious action
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Are you trying to tweet the wrongest thing you can think of as some sort of dare?
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I’m trying to find the most useful, wrong model. The oversimplification that is most empowering for people to believe
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Every complex system can be summarized in 7±2 notes that capture 80% of the important features
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I think that’s highly accurate. If it takes more than that, you’re overcomplicating it. If under, you’re oversimplifying
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I’d forgotten it but I have some notes on the Wikipedia article
Due to atrophy from second brain dependence I think my memory buffer has declined to 4 though:
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I think a lot about this idea I read somewhere a long time ago that feels related
that there’s a certain number, above which, you can’t instantly count a spatial orientation of items. If I see 5 scattered dots on paper, I often have to compute that. At 4, I can just see it
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