The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 1 of 8)

wonderingmind42 · 13 recommenders · 10 months

Part 1 of a lecture by physicist Albert Bartlett on the exponential function and its consequences for population growth, resource use and energy. It argues that steady growth rates quickly lead to enormous quantities.

Hacker News 读者推荐理由: A perennial HN recommendation for building intuition about exponential growth, cited whenever endless growth, energy or population come up.

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