0 to 1 is a sort of Great Man narrative conceit. You went from nothing to something like a god saying “let there be light!” When you dig into the history of any apparent 0 to 1 qualitative level-up, you invariably find a sqrt(n) to n^2 continuous inflection point story
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And this isn’t just because I’ve gradually come to really dislike Peter Thiel.
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ha there's something in that hamming book like this
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This seems quite true. But as a headline, "Sqrt[n] -> n^2" won't really fly off the shelves. Needs the Gladwell "catchy phrase for people who don't really want to bother with the math" treatment.
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The gladwell crowd is a sqrt(n) bunch I don’t want to deal with anyway

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why did you choose n^2 instead of like e^n?
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