this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2024
1 points (60.0% liked)
Videos
14183 readers
99 users here now
For sharing interesting videos from around the Web!
Rules
- Videos only
- Follow the global Mastodon.World rules and the Lemmy.World TOS while posting and commenting.
- Don't be a jerk
- No advertising
- No political videos, post those to [email protected] instead.
- Avoid clickbait titles. (Tip: Use dearrow)
- Link directly to the video source and not for example an embedded video in an article or tracked sharing link.
- Duplicate posts may be removed
Note: bans may apply to both [email protected] and [email protected]
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
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.