[vlovich123]

> That's true, but not really saying very much. Any differentiable function is locally linear around a neighborhood of any point where the derivative exists.

What I’m saying is that it’s hard to know if you are dealing with an exponential scenario. You’d respond differently more quickly but doing so for a linear function may be the wrong response. There are certain failure modes when you do encounter an exponential but most things we encounter are more linear / dampened so the bias humans have against exponential is rational despite the failures we have dealing with exponential problems (climate change being a notable counter example). I’m saying it’s a rational trade off to evolve when dealing with the world.