Okay, I’ll even take on the defender of my little paradox. A “cascade of 9” isn’t a real thing: a number doesn’t suddenly become larger just because it reaches 100 instead of 99. In hexadecimal you get cascades of F’s, and in binary you get cascades of 1’s.
But at least that’s just a cognitive bias — not a a pathological case of “Calculus I”
What’s more concerning is how quickly people downvote things they don’t understand.
Dismissing something because it doesn’t immediately make sense isn’t critical thinking it’s avoidance disguised as skepticism. Sad af.
Okay, I’ll even take on the defender of my little paradox. A “cascade of 9” isn’t a real thing: a number doesn’t suddenly become larger just because it reaches 100 instead of 99. In hexadecimal you get cascades of F’s, and in binary you get cascades of 1’s.
But at least that’s just a cognitive bias — not a a pathological case of “Calculus I”
What’s more concerning is how quickly people downvote things they don’t understand.
Dismissing something because it doesn’t immediately make sense isn’t critical thinking it’s avoidance disguised as skepticism. Sad af.