The Key Assumption: Productivity a = a0·N^(1/k) in the Doomsday Paper
csvoss · x · 2026-11-11
csvoss shares a page from the 1960 paper showing its novel mathematical assumption: for populations capable of mutual communication, productivity is modeled as a monotonic increasing function of population size, a = a₀·N^(1/k) with k≈1. Substituting into the growth equation and integrating yields the divergence result.
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