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: https://youtu.be/3bxzo79SjpE) 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). ================================================ 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.com/episode/20-daniel-schmactenberger 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 #DanielSchmachtenberger #NateHagens #TheGreatSimplification