When there is a certain “force that gets you into a bad state,” and the closer you get to a bad state, the stronger that force becomes, once you cross a certain boundary you are no longer [I can’t get out of it.
- Just like when you get inside the event horizon of a black hole, even light can’t get out.
What falls into a black hole can no longer be taken out. It is being (too) late. Any effort to retrieve it will be futile, and the effort must be abandoned.
relevance
- Bad Positive feedback.
- It is correct to use the term “positive feedback” to refer to this phenomenon, but I avoid using it because some people are drawn to the word “positive” and get confused
- A good expression is “it is difficult to get out of it”.
- vicious circle
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