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Heuristics of 3rd and 6th orders

If something is three orders of magnitude more powerful, it can be achieved individually. A baby can barely lift half a kilo, a top muscleman half a ton, and if it's a ship on the water, then 50 tons. But the first three orders of magnitude increase is natural, and barge haulers are useless without civilization. Humans didn't just create agriculture; they also learned to use fossil fuels. I explain this by proportion. Red ants, 0.5 cm tall, build 4 meters deep. The proportion is 1:800. So, roughly, 800 x 2 meters is 1600, basically a typical oil mine. Obviously, this is a very rough calculation, like, yeah, we're deeper, but at intermediate depths, we don't build shit. In short, Fermi calculations aren't precise enough to account for the morphology of organisms, etc. The funny thing is, ants are incredibly tiny, like the heaviest weighs 372 mg, lol, mg, lol, like the active ingredient in a pill. An ant is a million times smaller than a human, and humanity is more than a million times larger than a tribe. The speed of computers and the precision of processor assembly are more than a million times greater than human capabilities. The point is that problems with 6 zeros are the least interesting. If there are more than three zeros, things are already bad. Three zeros are the most interesting problems. Heuristics regarding 0 zeros, 1 zero, 2 zeros, and 3 zeros. If we think about a quantity without zeros, then it's a force. Meaning, some simple, real force, and we need to think about its morphology, not about what will happen if it is increased or decreased many times. X0 – one zero is cheap. Anything with one zero is a plus or minus error. One zero is the most minimally distinguishable thing, so we're talking about a set, not individual elements. X00 — two zeros is already interesting; the first three prime numbers: 1, 2, 3 are the strongest. But x100 isn't great either. Like, I can bench press a hundred — good, but did you know that a 100g flail would still crush your skull? Literally, x1000 is easier than your show-off? In general, morons consider hundreds interesting, but they're just a basic unit, like tens. X000 — three zeros is imba. This is the limit of strength in general. An income of x1000 is top-notch. Focus of energy relative to the standard is top-notch; a sword is better than a fist. x10,000 is too much. From the fourth zero, strength begins to drop sharply; it's not entirely clear why, but the reasons are biological.