Working out how this applies to other fields is left as an exercise to the reader, because I’m lazy and the space of places I use this metaphor is large (and paradoxically, so overbuilt that it’s probably quite warped).
Also: minimally-warped lenses aren’t always the most useful lens! Getting work done requires channeling attention, and doing it disproportionately!
And most heavily-built things are pretty warped; it’s usually a safe default assumption. Doesn’t make heavily-built things pointless, that is not what I’m getting at.
...but stuff that hews close to base-reality has the the important distinction of surviving most cataclysms basically-intact, and robustness is a virtue that works in their favor.
Working out how this applies to other fields is left as an exercise to the reader, because I’m lazy and the space of places I use this metaphor is large (and paradoxically, so overbuilt that it’s probably quite warped).
Also: minimally-warped lenses aren’t always the most useful lens! Getting work done requires channeling attention, and doing it disproportionately!
And most heavily-built things are pretty warped; it’s usually a safe default assumption. Doesn’t make heavily-built things pointless, that is not what I’m getting at.
...but stuff that hews close to base-reality has the the important distinction of surviving most cataclysms basically-intact, and robustness is a virtue that works in their favor.