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> [Smart people] think the world isn’t complicated, period.

um.. what!?

The world is a complicated mess in just about every aspect except in those axiomatic systems we developed to create simplified models -- but the map is not the territory. The world is by far larger than those specialized areas we're good at.

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"As the circle of light increases, so does the circumference of darkness around it." -- Albert Einstein

Sure, but I think that there was an implicit assumption that the person under consideration was explaining something within their area of expertise. Otherwise the article would be claiming that a smart person can explain anything simply, which amounts to equating "smart" with "omniscient".

The other assumption I made about the article was that it was discussing a useful heuristic, not a 100% reliable test. The inherent complexity of the world is one of the things that can make it give the wrong result, but not the only one.

Perhaps that is true, but I feel that if the blogger really understood what he was talking about, he would have been able to phrase it in a way that wouldn't cause any confusion. ;)

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