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Melanie Moses on Metabolic Scaling in Biology & Computation

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Is There a More Like Trend in Solar Power?

i was watching the old nova documentary on the the x planes, you know, like the lock versus bowing, coming up with the next fighter. So i think it's an important point. Some technologies follow this kind of morelike trend. But the vast majority of our technological innervations are actually pretty slow. And there these sort of punctuated moments in time where we discover how to leverage some resource that we didn't know how to use before and so we get a big increase in something because of that. That's different in scale, but similar in process, maybe, to these these other evolutionary transitions.

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