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The “relativeness” comes from time, not from us. Judging the curve today, the past looks flat and the future looks steep. In 5 years the same will be true: toda
by tolmasky 6y ago
The “relativeness” comes from time, not from us. Judging the curve today, the past looks flat and the future looks steep. In 5 years the same will be true: today will seem flat and the future will seem steep — that’s the point of OP showing both of those ranges. It is this relative perspective that precisely creates the illusion of a runaway point, an “absolute” perspective gives you the fractal understanding that the graph is the same at every dimension.
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- ahartmetz 6y agoMost exponential curves are only exponential until they hit a limit and become an S-curve. These sort of have a runaway point. But in this article full of hyperbole and falsehoods, steelmanning its bad arguments might not be appropriate.
- thewakalix 6y agoPerhaps this use of “fractal” is technically incorrect, which could spawn another, smaller, yet similar discussion in response...