Transients are often way more dangerous than terminal asymptotic effects. In the long term we’re all dead from short term effects.
Like that trope in movies where you cleverly avoid the big monster only to be killed by the little one you didn’t see. Reverse Beowulf effect.
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Hope Arya doesn’t find out you called her a little monster.
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Isn't the difference arbitrary?
Transient effects are a function of multiple long running processes intersecting.
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The Lord of the Nazgûl felt much the same way when, after facing down Gandalf, he was stabbed by a hobbit.



