Munroe – What If?
Book page: munroe-what-if
From: Quotes batch 15
Concept
“If you tried to gather a mole of moles in one place, they would form a planet-sized sphere of meat.” (p. 124)
Behavior
“Humanity’s collective reaction to a global catastrophe is surprisingly predictable once you account for the panic-latency period.” (p. 45)
Game Theory
“The ‘everyone jump at once’ scenario is a lesson in how physical laws ignore the coordination of social games.” (p. 62)
Cognition
“The human brain is terrible at visualizing large numbers, which is why we need absurd analogies to understand the scale of the sun.” (p. 189)
Memory
“Digital memory is fragile; if the power goes out forever, our current era will become a ‘data dark age’ for future historians.” (p. 215)