Imagine we could see beyond our visible spectrum. γ waves, radiowaves, everything. Would it be good,or would it just distract you? Of course we can find circumstances where it is good
In the beetle eg, the beetles already filter out most of the world. Those that evolve to differentiate females from bottles (ie more truly seeing reality) would survive.
In the models he makes in his articles there is a high cost for information. Under this condition blindly choosing environments can make something more competitive.
From his desktop eg, even seeing the world with more detail (ie seeing the pixels of an icon on the desktop) is not still not seeing reality (bits of info on hard drive).
Lol, sorry about that. Had a lot of thoughts watching that talk & looking into his work. Kind of a stream of consciousness but wanted it make my thoughts more clear.