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  • I think Stalin said something along the lines of “one death is a tragedy but when you’re in the millions, it’s just a statistic”.

  • Supraliminality. Our ape minds lose grasp of the significance of high numbers, so while 10k deaths is a tragedy, 20k deaths doesn’t “feel” twice as tragic, and so on.

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