[taneq]

I feel like an inefficient solution is inelegant by definition.

[Antibabelic]

Richard O'Keefe in The Craft of Prolog: "Elegance is not optional".

[Smaug123]

Nah - for example, AIXI is so inefficient that it's literally uncomputable, but it is beautiful.

[zingar]

That sounds intuitively right but breaks down when you ask “inefficient at what?”. Are you efficient with CPU cycles or efficient with human working memory?