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Re:Is everything falling apart? by kristjansson on Friday April 29, 2022 @02:36PM (#31209043)
Economic and biological growth curves look exponential right up until they don't. Both are limited by energy consumption, and nothing with limits can exceed the growth rate of its constraint.
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Re:Is everything falling apart? by kergonath on Friday April 29, 2022 @02:52PM (#31209219)
Yeah, and if the study of populations has shown us anything, exponentials can also turn quickly into gaussians when a tipping point is passed. Not all of them end up as nice (if you are not afraid of the end of growth anyway) logistic curves.
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Re:Is everything falling apart? by kristjansson on Friday April 29, 2022 @10:50PM (#31212930)
We’re lucky if we’re on a logistic trajectory
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