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> But every exponential is at a certain point a sigmoid. strongly, no. its just hard to distinguish them. for example, radioactive decay. cmon
by sometimelurker 3mo ago
> But every exponential is at a certain point a sigmoid.
strongly, no. its just hard to distinguish them. for example, radioactive decay. cmon
- timmytokyo 3mo agoPoint taken. But it's interesting that the example you give is one of exponential decay rather than exponential growth, which is the context of this discussion. Where in nature has anything ever grown exponentially in perpetuity? Bacteria in a petri dish multiply exponentially. Until they don't.
- sometimelurker 3mo ago> Where in nature has anything ever grown exponentially in perpetuity? you could make the argument for human total GDP, which looks like https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-gdp-over-the-long-run https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-gdp-over-the-long-..., but then again, you could say we just haven't reached the sigmoid in it. I personally doubt we will