I represent history timelines logarithmically in my head. I talk about it in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/j8WMRgKSCxqxxKMnj/what-i-think-about-when-i-think-about-history . I think the reason that number lines are logarithmic is because we are more familiar with events/numbers on one side of the line. I’m not sure that number lines are high-dimensional inside people’s heads. At least for me, it is one dimensional and maybe curved a little around my field of vision.
I represent history timelines logarithmically in my head. I talk about it in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/j8WMRgKSCxqxxKMnj/what-i-think-about-when-i-think-about-history . I think the reason that number lines are logarithmic is because we are more familiar with events/numbers on one side of the line. I’m not sure that number lines are high-dimensional inside people’s heads. At least for me, it is one dimensional and maybe curved a little around my field of vision.