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542: Andrew Gallimore

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

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The Man's Greatest Failure Is His Inability to Understand the Exponential Function

Humans are not built for thinking the exponential function. So we only think linearly. It's like that question of if you grow a bacteria and it fills up a jar, right? It doubles. And it's full at midnight. When is it half-full? It doubles every minute; when was it halfFull? At 11.59. That's what Terrence McGannell was speaking about here in terms of this increasing novelty. We're a hundred years behind, whatever there is, a hundred years in the future. What's that going to look like?"

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