tags: exponential growth
2006
May
- 2006 May 15
- marxian crisis energy against orwellian global capitalism
Before I completely lose sight of this thought, I wanted to talk about this post on crisis theory and this post on the world of 1984. I think crisis theory does make useful analogic predictions about the future. (OK, I don’t for a moment purport to truly understand crisis theory, but I think I have some gist of it.)
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2015
August
- 2015 Aug 4
- Moore's Law
I've always been skeptical of many of the claims that people who are pro-Singularity have made regarding Moore's Law.
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2016
May
- 2016 May 12
- Stationary Phase
An example of the fact that exponential growth cannot continue forever simply because of the laws of thermodynamics.
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