Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Bend not Break #4: Modeling the Drivers of the Metacrisis”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Information Processing and the Third Industrial Revolution
There's this tight coupling between the kind of utility of associated with atoms and energy. As we do more in the domain of software you're either applying software to human attention or you're applying it to the materials economy because what else is there? Software creates a whole new set of attention hijacking belief hijacking capabilities which are problematic that can drive polarization addiction low attention spans all those things. If you don't have some law or deterrence that limit the upper boundary you have Jevons paradox where when you increase efficiency you just end up using more total stuff.
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