A Finite Time Singularity | The Geoffrey West Series | Episode 3 (WiM146)
The "What is Money?" Show
The Santa Fe Institute
Cormac McCarthy is fascinated by scientists. He moved to Santa Fe because he became good friends with Murray Gilman, great physicist. "He just reached out and offered to help out at your call," the author says of his friend.
Theoretical Physicist Geoffrey West joins me for a multi-episode series exploring his excellent book "Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies."
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Transcript:
OUTLINE
00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro
00:00:08 Geoffrey’s (Undisciplined) Approach to Writing…
00:11:00 Physical Activity and Activating the Creative Juices
00:14:58 Tools Geoffrey Uses in the Writing Process
00:17:30 Geoffrey’s Approach to Reading…
00:22:40 Just Write or Edit-as-You-Go?
00:25:45 Cormac McCarthy’s Involvement with Geoffrey’s Written Work
00:30:31 NYDIG
00:31:39 The Scaling Characteristics Specific to Organic Growth
00:37:53 “Social Metabolism”: The Super-Linear Scaling of Inorganic Growth
00:42:37 Could Super-Linear Scaling have an Undiscovered Limiting Factor?
00:44:12 A Possible End to Super-Linear Scaling: A Finite Time Singularity
00:51:36 What is the Nature of Innovation with Paradigm Shifts?
00:54:31 Sustainability as the Intelligent Exportation of Entropy
00:58:18 Harnessing Fossil Fuels and the Attendant Shift to a Global Closed System
01:01:52 Respecting the Role of Scientific Thinking in Socioeconomic System Design
01:05:34 James Maxwell Advocating the Economic Value of Electromagnetism
01:08:30 From Living on Energy Flows to Energy Stocks: The Transition to a Closed System
01:16:56 My Story of Legislation Destroying the Residential Solar Power Business
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