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by apolloartemis 1516 days ago
True, fair point.

Yeah like the article mentions, they are basically making an analogy to the idea of “punctuated equilibrium” from evolutionary biology. Here’s a good exploration of how punctuated equilibrium works, vs the alternative which is called gradualism.

https://gvpress.com/journals/IJBSBT/vol3_no4/3.pdf