Daniel Schmachtenberger: Bend not Break: Maximum Power & Hyper Agents | The Great Simplification #20

Here is Part 2 in a series of conversations with my friend Daniel Schmachtenberger. It's great to learn in real time with someone looking at the challenge our civilization faces - with a completely different background but similar ethos. It's like playing an insight slot machine in real time. (Part 1 here:    • Daniel Schmachtenberger “Bend Not Break Pa...  )

In this episode we take a deeper dive into organizational structures of civilization, including maximum power, energy and 'hyper agents'. We're building towards a concluding framework on what key essentials will be necessary for our culture to 'bend not break' in coming decades. I hope you enjoy it and it kickstarts similar thinking/conversations in your own network(s).
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Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue.

truncated Show Notes - (full notes at https://www.thegreatsimplification.co...

00:15 - Daniel’s website, the Consilience Project, and TGS Episode Part 1
02:00 - Nate’s work on Macro-issues: Reality Blind Vol. 1, Animated videos, Economics for the Future - Beyond the Superorganism
02:15 - Daniel’s work on micro-issues
09:06 - Surplus and financial representations of it
11:01 - Exponential growth obligation
11:25 - Jevons paradox
10:46 - Global GDP and energy coupling
12:39 - 18% of electricity goes towards the cloud and servers
16:01 - What is money
19:37 - 2-3% GDP growth expectation
21:36 - The digital economy still requires materials
22:21 - Average American consumes 57 barrel oil equivalents of fossil fuels/yr + 17 barrels of oil equivalents in stuff bought from oversea countries.
23:29 - GINI Coefficient
23:47 - India coal consumption up 29%
24:56 - Inequalities in climate effects
27:26 - 93% of heat absorbed by oceans
28:55 - Aza Raskin - Earth Species Project
31:10 - Marvin Harris
33:50 - Tech is value affect
36:36 - Agriculture provided a huge surplus of energy - primarily due to the plow
37:24 - The plow pushed for the end of Animism - which was once universal
40:20 - David Graeber
41:15 - Dunbar number
41:55 - The printing press and the protestant revolution
46:52 - Maximum power principle
47:15 - Kleiber’s law
59:13 - Alfred Lotka The Law of Evolution as a Maximal Principle
55:16 - Multipolar trap
1:05:15 - Losing 1-2% of insect biomass/year
1:09:04 - Large percentage of men have Genghis Khan’s Y chromosome
1:12:56 - Ooda Loop
1:16:21 - Systems
1:32:26 - Dopamine and Delayed gratification
1:37:07 - Peter Thiel
1:37:46 - Metcalfe’s law
1:39:22 - Saudi Aramco.
1:39:52 - There is a finite amount of atoms (copper)
1:44:45 - As energy gets more expensive, everything gets more expensive
1:49:24 - 19 terawatt society

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