量化的冲动根植于我们的社会。

The urge to quantify is embedded in our society.

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但对整个社会来说，其成本实际上是可以量化的，如果把它们加起来，可能会达到惊人的数额。

But the costs to the whole society can actually be quantified and, when added up, can amount to staggering sums.

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然而，这种做法可能导致不理想的结果，因为决策者往往只关注容易量化的因素。

This practice, however, can lead to suboptimal results, as decision-makers tend to focus only on easily quantifiable factors.

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And what we want to do then, is we want to basically come up with, how do we characterize the growth-- God bless you-- of this problem in terms of this Quadra-- sorry, terms of this exponential growth.

现在我们想要做的就是,我们怎么来量化增长率呢？,在这个问题中也,就是框架-对不起是，输入指数的增长。

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OK. So to do this, we need a little more abstract way of talking about efficiency, and so, the question is, how do we think about efficiency? Typically there's two things we want to measure.

好，为了达到这个目的,我们需要用一种有点，抽象的方式去讨论效率，这衍生出来,一个问题，我们该怎么去认识效率？,主要来说我们有两个要量化的东西。

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This is why he gets the Nobel prize and Lewis did not get the Nobel prize, but Pauling's work was quantitative.

这是为什么他荣获了诺贝尔奖,而Lewis没获得，鲍林的工作是数据性的，是量化的。

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