On 2020-02-15, John Kaufmann <kaufmann@nb.net> wrote:
Just so. At what point does a small and natural generalization of "one
thing" become more complex than a new thing? Simplicity is the friend,
complexity the enemy; order the friend, entropy the enemy. It takes a
lifetime of design to see where to draw those lines, and we never stop
learning.
That members of the most generalist species on earth should extol the
merits of the most extreme form of specialisation is something of an
ironic puzzlement here in the balcony seats.