Whatever your opinion of tech, it does one invaluable thing I’ve never learned any version of from liberal arts education: a visceral sense of exponential regimes. The closer you’ve worked to semiconductors, the deeper this exponential literacy gets.
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Words fail on exponential regimes. Numbers and log scales are your only friends. Exponential regimes lack words the way outer space lacks an atmosphere to breathe in. Innumeracy is death.
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I have never seen so many math-avoiders do so much math in such a short period. That’s a small silver lining here. People are doing at least basic arithmetic. Some are even learning about log scales
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Westworld: - We are in the middle of a war. And I need your help to win it. - Seems fairly idyllic for wartime. - No one knows it's happened yet. Or that it's already been lost. It is disheartening when people don't get an exponential process :(https://viktor.doklist.com/ultimate-summary-for-friends-and-family-science-and-global-situation-about-covid-19/ …
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