@St_Rev My gf and I swap these when hiking: What's that glacier weigh? How much would it cost to move that mountain 100 miles?
OK, that's not really fair. LW does talk about Fermi estimates sometimes. They apparently aren't as sexy as Bayesian estimates, though.
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@Meaningness It opens up so much data that's lying in plain sight! But try to tell people and it's like showing a danish to a cat. -
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@St_Rev Mathematicians are *much* more prone to this than engineers. Physicists are possibly worst, cuz of "I am a genius" disease.
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