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The Long Shadow of Complexity (w/ David Krakauer)

Uncertain Things

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The Commitment to Epicycles

The original commitment to epicycles was based on beauty and divine symmetry. It wasn't because there was any commitment to scientific truth as we understand it today, but rather that the symmetry and beauty itself was beginning to collapse. And our own cognitive limitations forced us to go down a different path. So I think there is this deeper principle in here, which is both social and scientific and humanistic about the creative value of constraint that is everywhere.

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