Is administering a Covid-19 test on yourself difficult, or are the instructions just confusing? How should we explain complexity and is there a limit to how much we can simplify things?

In our latest podcast, we discuss different ways of simplifying information, how to judge the right level of detail for a given context, and whether reductionism is always a useful concept. We look at how simplification can help or hinder understanding, examining some of the consequences of oversimplification.


A few things we mentioned in this podcast:


- Reddit: Explain Like I’m Five https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/ 
- Shannon information and Kolmogorov complexity https://homepages.cwi.nl/~paulv/papers/info.pdf 

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