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The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 1 of 8)
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What this video covers
Part 1 of a lecture by physicist Albert Bartlett on the exponential function and its consequences for population growth, resource use and energy. It argues that steady growth rates quickly lead to enormous quantities.
How the source describes its HN context
A perennial HN recommendation for building intuition about exponential growth, cited whenever endless growth, energy or population come up.
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