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Calculate what 2% growth per year means after say 5000 years. What implications this has. It means everything beyond the visible universe has been consumed. ht
by jrimbault 7y ago
Calculate what 2% growth per year means after say 5000 years. What implications this has. It means everything beyond the visible universe has been consumed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem
This problem is weirdly everywhere. Especially in software, this should be understood. We can't have exponential anything, it's just reckless.
- raxxorrax 7y agoLogistics and communications certainly scale pretty well. Remembering how young the industrial revolution actually is and how many problems we already have, it seems be foolish to keep growth the goal. Although you would need to differentiate. Growth in resource consumption? Nobody would want that. Growth in wealth? Yes, please... Maybe logistics and communications had litte effort to keep up with exponential growth, but other sectors certainly seem tired from time to time. It just isn't possible to grow food with exponential efficiency, even if recent developments (last ~200 years would have us believe otherwise).