I think "Reality has a surprising amount of detail" [0] is a better restatement of this same basic idea. Also, I don't think it's true that humans are "incapab

I think "Reality has a surprising amount of detail" [0] is a better restatement of this same basic idea. Also, I don't think it's true that humans are "incapable of grasping non-linear, complex interactions" -- it's just that hard things are hard. If you can save yourself a huge amount of effort by using a first-order approximation, you should absolutely do that if you can get away with it. There's a reason civil engineers don't typically concern themselves with relativistic effects. [0] http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-...