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> What matters is that the number conveys a sense of magnitude. We collectively lost almost a billion IQ points! But losing a billion IQ points might be less b
by Alex3917 5y ago
> What matters is that the number conveys a sense of magnitude. We collectively lost almost a billion IQ points!
But losing a billion IQ points might be less bad than losing 10M IQ points, because there is literally no scale.
- pooper 5y ago> But losing a billion IQ points might be less bad than losing 10M IQ points, because there is literally no scale. Maybe there is a bigger point I don't understand here (wouldn't that be ironic) but I only have about a hundred IQ points to play with and so does the average person (by definition?) so a billion IQ points is all the IQ points for ten million "average" people. What am I missing?