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our emotional response to seeing two wolves is probably about twice that of seeing one wolf. but response to seeing 100 wolves and 200 wolves is probably about
by keymone 7y ago
our emotional response to seeing two wolves is probably about twice that of seeing one wolf. but response to seeing 100 wolves and 200 wolves is probably about the same. point being - there's plenty of logarithmic thinking in our brains, so we're not that linear.
i fail to come up with similar example for exponential thinking, we probably really can't comprehend that.
Edit: typo
- anoncake 7y ago> our emotional response to seeing two wolves is probably about twice that of seeing one wolf. I think it's closer to equal. One wolf is a danger, two wolves is a danger. Especially when one wolf causes maximal fear, two wolves can't appear any more dangerous.