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.)

· Read more…

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.

· Read more…

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.

· Read more…