> I never understood that Thanos reasoning, clearly he underestimates exponential growth. This is a common thread in discussions of overpopulation. One particu

> I never understood that Thanos reasoning, clearly he underestimates exponential growth. This is a common thread in discussions of overpopulation. One particularly egregious example I've seen is where people object to immortality[1] based on overpopulation concerns. As in this case, killing literally everyone (after they reproduce) only gives you a couple of generations of breathing room. Exponential growth is really really unintuitive. [1] I didn't say it was a particularly realistic discussion