This platform allows for explanation that is beyond the zinger. Trump has mastered the zinger, and look where the world has ended up. This idea is that we move onto longer form platforms to discuss topics. But what makes a good explanation? It could be argued that Trump is a good explainer, actually, because he says things in a way that an 8 year old could understand -- every. single. time. Richard Feynman is reputed to have said: "If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood". A concise explanation is an equation, right?: "An equation is compressed, which helps give it its precision, and can create an illusion of simplicity. Just like "a witch did it" is compressed, but if you expand it all of the complexity is inside "witch" and "it", and as you expand "it" you might arrive at some true simplifications in the untwisting sense like physical laws that make you wonder about the need for "witch"... But even if you expand the math it's still all together one of the simplest ways to describe something. That's why I like programs more, there's less implicit compression and it's easier to expand things you aren't familiar with. And there's the formalization of Kolmogorov complexity you can use for things. As you say, informal explanations are great for understanding and bringing clarity, a lot of the time they're just used to help expand the unfamiliar math, but also a lot of the time they trade off precision, conciseness, or accuracy. At worst they complicate things with twists and relations in the informal explanation that don't exist in the real deal. Sometimes that might be helpful in the same way technically unrelated mnemonics are but it's important to point them out. The conflation of simple, easy, concise, precise, clear, intuitive.. is the root of the issue when discussing what makes a good explanation." Jach - comment section Hacker News 16 June 2017 But along came AI and, yes, it is Gemini who says it best: When complex systems (like social issues, political policies, or human relationships) are boiled down to soundbites or dogmatic rules, important context is lost. And at the end of the day, if each of us has learned only one thing iin our lives, it is that context is king. Right?