https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2005.05244/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26993338urn:hackerpapers:mention:2005.05244:26993338Fri, 30 Apr 2021 13:41:25 GMT<p>I feel reasonably confident that we will probably continue to see decent gains over the medium term of the next few decades, barring major wars. But what is always in the back of my mind is just how long can human civilization continue this incredible rate of exponential growth. If you assume that economic growth requires any amount of increase in energy consumption, then there are physical limits to how much growth can occur over the long term and we are rapidly approaching them[1]. Eventually growth will need to slow and it looks like this is already starting to happen [2]. Japan may be the…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2005.05244/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.soc-ph