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Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Bend not Break #2: Maximum Power and Hyper Agents”

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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The Jevons Paradox - The Maximum Power Principle

We get our evolutionary neuro transmitter cocktails of meaning and love by using less resources. I think look at the jevons paradox way back to agriculture, then wer going to move it forward to the Jevons paradox on oil and a. O fossil energy makes perfect sense. When you get an increase in efficiency, in the ability to make more oil or energy generation, you're going to use more energy because it don't'benup newmarket sectors. But you can see that that was also true agriculture, ra and r basically the generation of human calories as you grow the population. If you didn't do that, if you didn't clear the land, some one else would have

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