Physics professor Albert Bartlett first drew my attention the problem:
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
Our brains were not designed for this. There was not much need to understand abstract mathmatical processes during human evolution.
One limit to our understanding is the size of our brains.
They grew exponentiallly through millions of years of evolution, but average sizes have dipped in the last 100,000 years or so.
The human brain is the product of exponentional growth, but very few brains can fathom exponential growth.
Next question: How much — and when — will AI make the size of you brain irrelevant?
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