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Some people are stuck in black and white thinking. They struggle to visualize the gradual transition that often happens in real life.

Some people are stuck in seeing everything gradual. They tend to discount systems flipping and long tail events.

Then there a few who see mostly nonlinear systems and neglect the spoils that lay in linear analysis of a localized space.

And on microscopic level there is the weirdness of quantum effects.

Knowing into which toolbox to reach is not always clear.




I've no idea what you mean by this. It's confusing to me.


Well put.




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