alt Hacker NewsExponential growth may look like a very slow increase at first, but it's still exponential growth.
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janalsncm • yesterday at 8:55 PM
Sigmoids may look like exponential growth at first, until they saturate. Early growth alone cannot distinguish between them.
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gf000 • yesterday at 9:26 PM
If it's exponential growth. It may just as well be some slow growth and continue to be so.
On the other hand: Perception of change might not be linear but logarithmic.
(= it might take an order of magnitude of improvements to be perceived as a substantial upgrade)
So the perceived rate of change might be linear.
It's definitely true for some things such as wealth:
- $2000 is a lot of you have $1000.
- It's a substantial improvement of you have $10000.
- It's not a lot you have $1m
- It does not matter if you have $1b