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	flowerlad 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: First Principles Thinking "I am going to solve a complex problem" is a better goal. If you start with the goal of designing something ambitious then the design will likely end up more complex than necessary.
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argee 5 days ago [–]

Ambitious doesn't mean complex. Where did that idea even come from? I don't see this connection being introduced properly in this thread?

As an example, heliocentrism was profoundly ambitious yet devastatingly simple compared to geocentric formulae.

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