Comment by cobertos
1 month ago
Always thought something like this would be really nifty if paired in real-time with quantities we interact with in a daily basis.
Oh, it was a large scam? Hundreds of people participated? Basically if an extended family reunion or apartment building full of people. Not as hard to imagine.
The hope would be to better calibrate our own magnitude of reactions against the numbers we see
It would be an interesting website if formatted like wikidata. Anyone can make/edit a magnitude, and the goal for moderation is keeping like-items in a context comparable. (Stadium Attendance has at least some commonality with Stadium Size)
You'd end up with this big graph of values, that in theory you could traverse as deep as you want by just using the right units and multiplying. "[1-person's joules burned per hour by standing] x [1-standium's worth of people] x [4-football game's length in hours]"