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by geraneum 382 days ago
> Humans are not familiar with exponential change

Humans are. We have tools to measure exponential growth empirically. It was done for COVID (i.e. epidemiologists do that usually) and is done for economy and other aspects of our life. If there's to be exponential growth, we should be able to put it in numbers. "True me bro" is not a good measure.

Edit: typo

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There's individual persons modelling exponential change just fine, and then there's what happens when you apply to the populace at large.

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."

> when you apply to the populace at large

What does this mean? What do you apply to populace at large? Do you mean a populace doesn’t model the exponential change right?

Yep that's what I meant! Context clues did you well here.
“A populace modeling exponential change”. Yeah, that’s just word salad.
We can agree to disagree. After all, even you were able to figure out what I meant :-)
disagree on what? You have not put forward a coherent statement. I had to fix your sentence. ;)