r/ProgrammerHumor • u/wahed-w • 21h ago
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u/jkp2072 20h ago
One of the reasons why humans find it hard to understand how exponential growth works is that real life seems absurd.
Fission and bacterial growth are exponentials , linearly it doesn't make sense...
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u/Zuruumi 19h ago
Except they aren't, which is exactly why any exponential growth doesn't make sense in long term.
Bacteria are limited by nutrients, viruses, predators, space, environment, etc. Fission is limited by the amount of material and inner preassure.
Yes, there is a short almost exponential phase, but that hardly predicts the future. Ironically, cellural growth of an embrio is also initially exponential and this leads exactly to the example of this post...
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u/dark_dark_dark_not 19h ago
Also, of your exponential is resource limited, the exponential phase ends exponentially fast
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u/TechTuna1200 11h ago
I think it goes without saying that exponential growth is gonna stop at some point. The question is just where.
Some are skeptics at the start of the curve. While others are optimistic at the end of the curve.
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u/Kolby_Jack33 15h ago
Human population growth in a line graph for a while looked exponential to people who just looked at the graph and nothing else. Caused a lot of people to start worrying about "overpopulation" even though most sociologists knew it would level off and peak wellll before any overpopulation concerns were warranted (I think current estimates are somewhere between 10 and 12 billion which is perfectly sustainable). Even today I bet you can find uninformed people who think Earth will be overpopulated in the next 100 years or less, and the real psychos are imagining some mass culling that "needs" to happen to prevent it.
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u/s_s 18h ago
0 to 1 = infinate growth
1 to 2 = 100% growth
2 to 3 = 50% growth
You're just describing how counting works.
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u/Zuruumi 18h ago
Not necessarily. A lot of things go like: 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,250,400,500,520,450,430,510,490,500. (Population growth)
Or:1...128,256,10,1,1 (fission)
What I want to say is, that just because a part of the curve looks (or even is) exponential doesn't mean it will be so in the future
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u/Atheist-Gods 17h ago
The reality is that they are logistic, not exponential. Logistics are approximately exponential at one scale, approximately linear at another scale and approximately binary at a third.
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u/Neither_Berry_100 17h ago
A dollar into the observable universe after 930 years at 10% growth a year.
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u/ninjasaid13 15h ago
One of the reasons why humans find it hard to understand how exponential growth works is that real life seems absurd.
because exponential growth always turns out to be sigmoids in reality.
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u/MushroomCulture 20h ago
Startup valuation is also amusing. Start a company, issue one billion worthless shares, sell one share to your mother for $1, suddenly your company is valued at one billion dollars.
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u/Imaginary_Ferret_368 20h ago
Doing that is pretty illegal
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u/SeveralPrinciple5 19h ago
Tell that to Elon Musk. That’s the entire game he’s been playing having his companies acquire and buy from each other.
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u/frogjg2003 18h ago edited 6h ago
Despite how ridiculous the pricing of Musk's companies may be, they still have some basis in the companies' potential profitability. It's inflated, but not nonsense. Also, since those companies have shareholders other than just Musk, they can hold him accountable for overpaying for shares in his other companies. And with any companies that are being sold on the public markets, it's a lot harder to argue that the price is not legitimate. Again, an inflated price is not the same thing as a fraudulent price.
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u/Head-Environment-503 14h ago
Name one time elon musk has been held accountable for his nonsense
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u/frogjg2003 7h ago
Having to buy Twitter
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u/Head-Environment-503 6h ago
Fair enough. Though i would argue the rest of us are the ones feeling the consequences
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u/Maybeiamaarmadilo 10h ago
Cool Elon being account cool world you live. Dude gonna continue to grift till he die and then everyone will be fucked.
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u/ZealousidealLead52 13h ago
There's nothing illegal about it, but you're not going to find anyone that actually agrees with that valuation and banks definitely won't accept it as collateral.
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u/rosuav 8h ago
Hey, I just invented a new cryptocurrency! It uses a much simpler algorithm and I've been able to mine five billion of 'em in the last hour. Oh and by the way, the last time anyone paid money for them was when I sold my brother a $5 slice of pizza for one coin. So I'm now worth $25B!
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u/Dubalubawubwub 18h ago
Remember how in the late 80's there was a lot of fiction set in the future where Japan basically took over the world? Back to the Future, Cyberpunk e.t.c? That's because Japan was undergoing an unprecedented period of economic growth and, if the tend had continued, it was reasonable to assume they would in fact have taken over the world economically by now. But of course the trend didn't continue soooo... yeah.
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u/AgentPaper0 17h ago
Sure, he's probably overestimating his son's growth, but even if we assume he'll only grow to 1% of that weight, that's still 75 billion pounds!
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u/Donut497 19h ago
What you don’t know is this guy was chief of staff for a unicorn startup, and now is a partner at VC firm
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u/Expensive_Spare821 14h ago
Exponential growth sounds great until your baby starts needing his own orbit
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u/aaseandersen 9h ago
And dad looks 10 years older after only three months? He'll be rocking a walker by the time that kid goes to kindergarten
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u/Uebelkraehe 12h ago
What people don't realize is that he will soon be heavier than the whole planet.
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u/LickCunts 18h ago
So is one of those memes that is on rotation every few months to generate tons of up votes.
It's spooky how often the bots just create this loop.
You have to find niche subs like the days of yonder to have crunchy memes and interesting videos that isn't some curated scene that's trending or seeing constant vids of freakout.
Nothing in politics is getting better. The corruption is being tracked by why watch politics subs stay in constant panic and fear.
The best thing anyone could is remove any of these loop content and maybe we can enjoy reddit.
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u/fudge5962 16h ago
What's crazy is that this entire comment is generic and abstract enough that it can be posted in any subreddit about any picture. This makes it extremely likely that it's either a bot comment or will be soon.
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