Great interview by @B_resnick and Slovic's work is fantastic, but the term "hard limits" greatly misleads (1/n) https://www.vox.com/explainers/2017/7/19/15925506/psychic-numbing-paul-slovic-apathy …
Hey. Thanks for the kind words! I'm open to changing the headline. I see "limit" as referring to the idea that we really can't fathom what..
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... what 10,000 people feel like. That it's always going to be a bit of an abstraction.
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And "limits" perhaps also referring to the limiting effect of psychic numbing on our thoughts and behavior.
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Interesting! Yes, big numbers strain imagination to be sure, and numbing *tends to* follow. New research just suggests it doesn't *have* to.
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I think "limits" is fair, but over the years have become allergic to "hard ___" (limits, wired, etc.). Often unnecessarily fatalistic.
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