[Entropee]

So you are talking about Calculus. 'Much faster' implies 2nd derivative.

What rate of change is your baseline for ‘objective normality’?

[dominicr]

You come across as somebody who's trying to fallaciously prove how smart they are, so can dismiss any argument you think isn't worthy of your esteemed intellect. It's not a good look. Your username adds to the suspicion that you're just a troll.

If you really want to, compare the past 150 years with the previous 2000: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1401-2

[Entropee]

Seeming as you clicked the down-vote button and not the 'reply' button, I am going to just assume you don't know...

Congratulations. You win the argument, and the internet.

Pointing out the problems without offering solutions isn't a very useful thing to do.

[dominicr]

I don’t think I can downvote replies to my own comment on HN. But I’ll take the internet crown anyway, thank you!

Edit: just tried it, I can downvote your original comment but not your replies to mine.

[Entropee]

You come across as somebody who doesn't have an answer to the actual hard question. Yes - it's faster now than 150 years ago.

What should the rate of change be at? What should we be aiming for?

Give me a bounded interval.

[dominicr]

There’s nothing to be gained here so I’ll apply the principle of conservation of energy and move on. When two arseholes blow hard all you get is a smelly room.

[Entropee]

What do you expect to gain from somebody who already agrees with you, Mr Obvious?

Having the last word was a really poor effort at conserving energy.

[dang]

We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines. Creating accounts to do that with will get your main account banned as well, so please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[taneq]

Uh, “much much faster” is 1st derivative. “Getting faster” is second derivative.

[Entropee]

While you are tripping over semantics ponder on this:

Is it 'getting faster' if 'much much faster' is faster than 'much faster'?

I don't have much patience for linguistic prescriptivists. If you are 'correcting' other people's sentences you understood exactly what they mean.