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Why would size determine significance? And what is significance anyway? What determines whether something is significant?
by lo_zamoyski 1y ago
Why would size determine significance?
And what is significance anyway? What determines whether something is significant?
- voidspark 1y agoSize determines significance by definition of a population bottleneck
- kbelder 1y agoStatistically, size or quantity is a major part of significance. But that's not really the sense in which 'significant' is being used here... it's being used as a synonym of 'important' or 'meaningful'. In those terms, you have to ask the question, 'significant to whom?' Significance doesn't exist outside of somebody to attach meaning to it. Most often, the answer is 'to me, the guy making the observation.' In that sense, that tiny speck of dust in our corner of the galaxy is very significant. At least to me.
- ashoeafoot 1y agoThe self repair forces of the ego selecting the tale with the highest praise for me, the chosen one, living at the end of time, made in gods image.