Thomas Murphy: “Physics and Planetary Ambitions”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Power Limitation of Expedential Growth
i can generate the power of a 100 wat light bulb with my own body. But i have an exo somatic wand that i can use by ordering stuff on amazon or flying to california, or the embodied energy in my office here. And that amplification factor is quite large, as you well know. Ya. Ok, let's keep going with the speed round. What is expedential growth as opposed to linear? Well, expedential growth is what happens when something grows in proportion to the amount that it already has. It attends to be a runaway process, because the bigger it gets, the faster it grows. And it's a positifeback runaway.
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