Vladimir_Nesov comments on Mathematical simplicity bias and exponential functions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 27 August 2009 09:38:00AM *  2 points [-]

Which is the origin of many physical laws, since Nature usually doesn't care about scale at which nonlinear effects kick in, leaving huge areas of applicability for the laws based on linear approximation.