# [\#18 Issue](https://github.com/milahu/alchi/issues/18) `open`: "this is too simple to be true"

#### <img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12958815?v=4" width="50">[milahu](https://github.com/milahu) opened issue at [2022-06-27 10:19](https://github.com/milahu/alchi/issues/18):

false expectations

masochists being skeptical of anything "too simple"

or, people who naturally prefer the left hand path (good intention, good cause)
and in school are forced to go the right hand path (good effect)

**example: using algae blooms to capture CO2 from the atmosphere**

[The highly controversial plan to stop climate change](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Hnv_ZJSQY)

concept:
lets dump rust (iron oxide) in our oceans
to produce an algae bloom
to capture CO2 from the atmosphere (fix climate change)
to stimulate growth of fish (side effect: more food for us)

this idea is "too simple"
because its too cheap (rich people hate this)
and because "the paranoid idiots" (type 4?) are too afraid to "just do something" (risky)
and rather prefer to "lets study this another hundred years"
([analysis paralysis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis)) (overthinking) (toxic passivity)

also:
all the "smart" people are insulted by such simple solutions
as they spend (waste) their whole lives looking for complex solutions

but then:
truth is simple. lies are complex.

or:
any fool can make things more complex.
it takes true genius to make things "simple but effective"

and:
just because you "study" something
does not mean you have the natural talent for it.
paradox:
people who lack the natural talent for something
will see that something as an "eternal mystery"
they are "fascinated" by the topic, because they will never understand it
but they still try ... (tragic heros, lucifers, rebels against their own nature)





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