Exponential Growth: Second Half of Chessboard Leaves Intuition Behind
paulnovosad · x · 2026-08-07
Discussion on Kurzweil's prescient description of exponential growth, citing his 1999 and 2014 works: exponential growth eventually leaves intuition and experience behind, things get weird in the second half of the chessboard.
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