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"A sufficiently large difference in quantity is a difference in kind"
by mlsu 3y ago
"A sufficiently large difference in quantity is a difference in kind"
- jiggawatts 3y ago"Quantity has a quality all its own." ― Joseph Stalin
- samanator 3y agoApparently a misattribution. According to this https://klangable.com/blog/quantity-has-a-quality-all-its-own/ https://klangable.com/blog/quantity-has-a-quality-all-its-ow... It was not Stalin who said that
- samanator 3y agoWhere is this from? I've been looking for a term for this...
- lopis 3y agoRight. First thing will be bright billboards in space illuminating our night sky.
- steve1977 3y agoWill you stop giving them ideas please?
- bell-cot 3y agoSorry, but that idea has been kicking around SF since at least the 1950's.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoRed Dwarf called the next step: "Coke Adds Life" written in supernovae.
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- amelius 3y agoIf advertisers could turn the Moon into a giant Pepsi logo, they would definitely do it.
- jjoonathan 3y agoImagine a Pepsi-sponsored replacement of the Kardashev scale: how big is the biggest Pepsi logo? Size of a person / building / city /continent / planet / galaxy / universe. Has consumerism truly run its course until a Pepsi logo has been carved into the CMBR?
- spyder 3y agoA small prototype was already built in Las Vegas, they can even change the "logos" on it :)
- tambourine_man 3y agoThat’s a scary thought
- oblio 3y agoUntil we have enough space debris that we make leaving our planet impossible. A sort of Great Space Garbage Patch, if you will.
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- omegadynamics 3y agoKids love to surf!
- v413 3y agoThis is the second "law" of the dialectical materialism by Engels: "The law of the passage of quantitative changes into qualitative changes" According to Wikipedia it has its roots from ancient Greece https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_materialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_materialism
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- mejutoco 3y agoIt is also a quote from Stalin.
- linuskendall 3y agoEngels pre-dates Stalin by a considerable period of time and we can assume Stalin has read Engels. Safe to say its Stalin just paraphrasing Engels.
- runarberg 3y agoNot safe to say at all, no. It is such an obvious thing to say, and such an easy observation, many people have said something of this nature for a very long time independent of each other. The is basically another phrasing of the question: “how many grains of sand makes a pile?” I’m not impressed by a cheap observation like this, even when phrased in a clever sounding way. I am impressed when people make new observations when this applies, such as when they are able to model a specific macro system that behaves very differently when the number of inputs is increased by a lot, and show how that is useful for our understanding of nature (including human nature).
- beepbooptheory 3y agoHmm, maybe you could write to Engels to tell him just how unimpressed you are?
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