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Comment by cohomologo

With double exponential growth, “it looks like nothing is happening, nothing is happening, and then whoops, suddenly you’re in a different world,” Neven said.

This is just a clever way to spin the fact that we are experiencing growth much slower than exponential growth now into a prediction of much faster future growth, without any evidence. Or perhaps an internal joke the physicists would make. Next time I have a really flat function, I'm going to fit it with a triple exponential like so:

  https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+exp(exp(exp(x))),+x%3D-20..-5,+y%3D0..5
parent cohomologo 7 years ago

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