orthonormal comments on Why are certain trends so precisely exponential? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 09 August 2011 03:44:27PM 5 points [-]

For comparison, here's a relevant example of a log-log graph (also from FiveThirtyEight) of an exponentially growing quantity which doesn't appear to show such a steady rate of growth:

SP500log

The difference between this graph and the GDP graph is pretty striking.