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		jasoncrawford on April 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is growth linear, not exponential? Unless we also had progress in energy technology that could overcome this, which unfortunately we haven't.

robotresearcher on April 21, 2022 [–]

You can't make something cheap enough to overcome quadratic growth in demand for very long.

Not even CPU cycles.

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