The Problem Of Bigly Yuge

Why our inability to understand scale leads us to self-harm

Allan Milne Lees

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The most public example we’ve had in recent years of grotesque mental retardation is the creature Trump, who is well-known for his complete inability to handle numbers larger than one. In Trumpworld, there is one, then bigly (e.g. more than one) and then yuge (e.g. some number so vast no human being could possibly…

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Allan Milne Lees

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