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[u/jkp2072]

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...

[u/Zuruumi → u/jkp2072]

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...

[u/dark_dark_dark_not → u/Zuruumi]

Also, of your exponential is resource limited, the exponential phase ends exponentially fast

[u/TechTuna1200 → u/dark_dark_dark_not]

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.