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by JumpCrisscross 616 days ago
> harder to discern and then quantify the loudness of a sound or brightness of a light as a human modem but we are better and more certain of the color

Fair enough, this might be a sensory artefact. In this case, however, nature had a point. Energy scales proportionally with frequency but exponentially with amplitude. Increasing amplitude delivers more bang than increasing frequency.