A Little Train Of Thought.
I've been thinking I need to be thinking more. I've called myself thinking jellyfish so I might as well say.
I have random distinct memories from when I was like in summer camp when I was in elementary school. I remember when I was playing a game of some kind. A young child who was way smaller than me was playing the game but had some trouble with it because he was so small.
A coach said “don't worry you aren't going to be small forever your going to eventually tower over Them”
I thought to myself no, you're going to grow but all of us are going to grow at the same rate so we'll Always be taller. I wasn’t the smartest child and had no idea about the statistical idea of logistic growth.
So that was dumb. Logistic growth basically means that growth slows down as time goes on or in a graph when the line curves forward. I’ll put my sources in a reply under this post but As opposed to linear growth where growth is constant or the line is straight. I thought human growth was linear when it was truly logistic.
Shame on my elementary schooler self; I confused types of statistical growth. I made a common mistake actually. You see, I'm not the only one who makes these kinds of mistakes. A Lot of things that grow grow in a logistic fashion. Basically anything with limited space, fuel, or energy, etc. will grow in a logistic pattern.
One example is animal populations they mostly grow in this fashion. Say you see that sea turtles are F--king like crazy then that’s a problem right? My jellyfish self is in danger of being devoured by dome shaped death. No turtle populations can only grow at a certain rate that rate is the amount of food they have. But it’s not exactly logistic growth, it's logistic growth than fall drop off followed by logistic growth of prey populations than repeat. But these ideas are not just dumb fun they can be dangerous if not understood
One famous crazy idea is that the population will grow exponentially. Exponential growth is the opposite of logistic growth. In exponential growth the line goes up in a curve. So this is dumb for several reasons, not the least of which is that it is just statistically wrong, the population has been going down.
To understand why this idea is dangerous we have to talk about Robert Malthus, a man who hated the poor and wanted to kill them. Okay so he never said anything like that but I think that is what he believed. What he actually said was that the growth of human populations is exponential but the growth of foods is not so we must cull the populations of the poor to fix this. This is dumb because it is wrong and also evil. Why should the poor be the ones who die, you asshole, why not you and the aristocracy. But we don’t have to worry about his idea because it was proven wrong right? Right? Oh wait, people still believe this don’t they?
Stop, how did we get here? I was talking about how I thought I was going to grow forever and I’m still talking for some reason, I don’t know why. I like thinking a lot and thought this up so we are here. It’s been fun, bye.
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