timtyler comments on The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is soliciting ideas - Less Wrong
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Sustained substantial growth rates seem highly unlikely. Resources - at best - go according to t cubed - so growth is likely to relatively quickly flatten out to close to 0% - a la Malthus.
I won't estimate peak growth rates here - but the higher they are, the shorter their duration will be.