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Like nothing one day, a rumor the next day, Twitter rumbling the next week, emergency shitshow the week after, then New York collapsing in a month. And all only visible if you trusted statistics. We’ve kinda already normalized how weird that whole thing was the first time.
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It’s easier to believe outlandish but comprehensible lies about Bill Gates and 5G than stretch your mind to accommodate exponentials. What’s happening is so hard to wrap your mind around, it’s easier to be a crackpot.
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We forget the universe has many big, fast processes that we simply don’t encounter very often. We equate large scale with slow, creeping change. We are treble creatures. Frequency domain flatlanders. We don’t expect sudden bass impulses.
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