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0 pointsstavros3y ago0 comments

> Life is complex, technology should support that. We should not have to dumb life down to match.

This sentence implies that the opposite of "complex" is "dumb", though.

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Ignoring that this is pointless pedantry, I don't really think so. I think it says that complex is on the high end of the scale, and dumbing something down slides it towards the low end of simple.

stavrosOP3y ago

I think things can be simpler without being dumb.

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0 pointsstavros3y ago0 comments

> Life is complex, technology should support that. We should not have to dumb life down to match.

This sentence implies that the opposite of "complex" is "dumb", though.

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ptudan3y ago

Ignoring that this is pointless pedantry, I don't really think so. I think it says that complex is on the high end of the scale, and dumbing something down slides it towards the low end of simple.

stavrosOP3y ago

I think things can be simpler without being dumb.

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