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Every exponential trend eventually ends.
Adam Becker · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026
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“and as you were alluding to with the lily pad example that I was talking about in the book that I pulled from Kurzweil, he forgets that the one thing you can always say about any exponential trend,”
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