AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Joe Tainter: “Surplus, Complexity, and Simplification”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
The Energy Complexity Spira
2min Snip
00:00
Summary
Transcript
Episode notes
"I don't so much believe in free will, but I do believe in free won't," he says. "You can use your intelligence and neocortex to make plans that ahead of time will trump your limbic mammalian emotional response in the moment." In a book with Tadpatsik called drilling down, you describe something called the energy complexity spiral. Can you explain what that is? Well, yes, they have to grow together on the rare occasions when humans have had little bits of surplus energy. On those occasions, complexity has grown because of having surplus energy, but then becoming more complex requires still more energySo that they spiral together energy and complexity spiral together as one increases the other
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode