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• Author: u/munin295 *

• URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/6cfn5b/1_0_many_1/

• Score: 5

• Created: 2017-05-21T09:04:39

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u/superk2001 [+5] (an hour later)

Maybe a variation of privledging the hypothesis - once you have seen one instance of a unicorn most of the work into what animal you could see has already been done.

u/Geminii27 [+2] (an hour later)

I do see your point. I'm not aware of whether there's a specific name for it. Going from zero to one often involves the concept of whether a thing is actually even possible at all, such as when a new device is invented, or a new technique is tested for the first time and works.

Going from one to many doesn't have that same fundamental attachment to sheer existence; if one of something is already around, it exists, and making more doesn't change its ability to exist. (Although it does involve checking off the "reproducibility" box.)

u/LupoCani [+2] (2 hours later)

I suspect the math behind this is simple multiplication/division. 1 in infinitely many times larger than 0, but many is only many times larger than 1.

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