having thought about it a bit, I think the idea of terser accurate models being "better" is the core of the idea of "beauty" in programming (and probably elsewhere).
fascinating, thanks for sharing. The idea that a formal theory of beauty could belong within the memeplex of complexity theory is really interesting. I find that complexity theory itself is full of beautiful concepts, so perhaps it's no surprise.
I've always felt that the best non-CS programmers were physicists, because they are always looking for the simplest model (eg, the same community that rejected a 27 dimension string theory as being too complex, but don't quote me on this, I'm no physicist).
