Relevant HN post from some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3995615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3995615 The problem with the super simp

Relevant HN post from some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3995615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3995615 The problem with the super simple explanation at the beginning (searching for the penny) is that it doesn't really expose the error of our insight in higher dimensions: everybody knows intuitively that as the dimensions goes up there's more "space". Insight fails, I think, in trying to understand what this statement really means and its effects on point distributions aka objects.