Magnitude
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There was a recent legal article at Yale that established something called the Bankston-Soltani Principle, which is that our expectation of privacy is violated when the capabilities of government surveillance have become cheaper by an order of magnitude, and each time that occurs, we need to revisit and rebalance our privacy rights.
Now, that hasn't happened since the government's surveillance powers have increased by several orders of magnitude, and that's why we're in the problem that we're in today, but there is still hope, because the power of individuals have also been increased by technology.
We wrote a compaction routine that reduces the size of all fonts by an order of
magnitude.
The different scales that give you these kinds of patterns range over an enormous range of magnitude, roughly 14 orders of magnitude, from the small microscopic particles that seed clouds to the size of the planet itself, from 10 to the minus six to 10 to the eight, 14 orders of spatial
magnitude.
In time, from milliseconds to millennia, again around 14 orders of
magnitude.
And if I think about a weather model, that spans about five orders of magnitude, from the planet to a few kilometers, and the time scale from a few minutes to 10 days, maybe a month.
Climate models in the 1990s took an even smaller chunk of that, only about three orders of
magnitude.
Climate models in the 2010s, kind of what we're working with now, four orders of
magnitude.
We have 14 to go, and we're increasing our capability of simulating those at about one extra order of
magnitude
every decade.
One extra order of
magnitude
in space is 10,000 times more calculations.
To give you an idea of the
magnitude
of this effect, you can connect these two lines, and what you see here is that 18-year-olds anticipate changing only as much as 50-year-olds actually do.
That night, at midnight, a
magnitude
9 earthquake hit off of the Pacific coast of Japan.
There are orders of
magnitude
more decisions you make every day that get the world right.
In contrast, a self-driving system is probably making decisions about 10 times per second, so order of magnitude, that's about 1,000 times per mile.
Eight orders of
magnitude.
Some of it, of course, is just the sheer
magnitude
of almost everything about them.
Chemists use the term mole to refer to the quantities that are at the
magnitude
of 602 sextillion.
I've asked geothermal experts and volcanologists for years, and I'm still unable to find another non-volcanic geothermal system of this
magnitude.
That is the
magnitude
of the change we have the potential to create around gun violence.
Now, it's still just a proposed epoch, but I think it's a helpful way to think about the
magnitude
of human influence on the planet.
These are factors of large
magnitude.
Those are the order of
magnitude
of changes you're talking about.
The unfortunate thing is that now, as we look at the independent analyses of what those climate treaties are liable to yield, the
magnitude
of the problem before us becomes clear.
But the
magnitude
of the problem is something we need to appreciate.
First of all, we have to think about the
magnitude
of the problem.
There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of
magnitude.
There's no way to assess the
magnitude
of a tragedy like Columbine, especially when it can be a blueprint for other shooters who go on to commit atrocities of their own.
EM: Actually, if you just do two things, you can get to approximately an order of
magnitude
improvement, and I think you can go beyond that.
So that's roughly a half-order of
magnitude
improvement right there.
Reasons like these, many more, and the fact that I don't like to leave things of this
magnitude
to chance, all informed my decision to become surgically sterilized.
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