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May 01, 2025
For most of the history of human civilization, humanity expanded at an astonishing pace: faster than exponential, nearly hyperbolic. This trend was famously described in a 1960 paper by Heinz von Foerster and colleagues, who extrapolated global population data to predict a so-called "Doomsday", a demographic singularity in which human numbers would become infinite by...