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What makes an idea beautiful?
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The story of beauty in physics is not that of a simple, powerful idea found to be useless, it is more of self-deception in how people fool themselves that an idea is better than it is. Focus should be on self-consistency rather than beauty, especially when trying to develop better theories on morons.
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The pursuit of beautiful and elegant ideas can often lead to a simplistic understanding of complex concepts, which is why we should focus more on self-consistency than beauty in developing better theories.
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Summary
The pursuit of beautiful and elegant ideas can often lead to a simplistic understanding of complex concepts, which is why we should focus more on self-consistency than beauty in developing better theories. Beauty should be assessed based on whether there's something wrong with the theory that needs fixing.