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Misunderstanding Malthus’ mistake

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Re: Misunderstanding Malthus’ mistake

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Hmmmmmmm! I didn't know about Feigenbaum's constant. That is interesting and mysterious...

That’s all you have to say? ;)

It might take a lot of processing before my brain can integrate this information well enough to formulate the next question!

What strikes me at first is that if this pattern is universal... then... well, it means that the THINGS that we think about - the exceptions, the problems that people encounter in their work and in their personal lives, come from fundamental aspects of numbers.

e.g. the power engineer who has to deal with spikes and outages; the pcb designer who has to deal with interference and cross talk, the plumber who has to diagnose a shaky pipe in an old building; the network engineer who can't fully explain latency; the spouse who can't synch with their partners mood; the athlete who surprises every now and then; the baseball team that should be winning but isn't...

And more specific to the topic, I wonder how world and country population forecasts are made. Do the models take account of Verhulst's dynamics?

What do weather forecasters know about this?

Re: Misunderstanding Malthus’ mistake

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We are currently running out of atmosphere to dump the CO2 from burning the oil into.

The CO2 content of the athmosphere is actually not that high, nor will it be at the end of the century even if we don't reduce global emissions. The problem is that it is quite enough already to cause climate change. Which would also not be such a big deal if not coupled with large-scale destruction of ecosystems and our dependence on non-renewable resources.

I didn't literally mean the atmosphere had a limited capacity to hold this much CO2 and no more.

Please add "without existential-level consequences", which was the implied meaning.

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