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Anemones and Simplicity

Darkhorse

It’s not about maximizing simplicity, it’s about understanding the amount of evidence needed to decide with confidence. And to help us remember, we’ll use the sea aneMoNE as a MNEmonic device. My first conjecture: great ideas are grokkable, marginal ideas are not. Let’s take an example. This condition continued for centuries.