Scaling Theory
Thibault Schrepel
Scaling Theory is a podcast dedicated to the power laws behind the growth of companies, technologies, legal and living systems. The host, Dr. Thibault Schrepel, has a PhD in antitrust law and looks at the regulation of digital ecosystems through the lens of complexity theory. The podcast is hosted by the Network Law Review. It features scholarly discussions with select guests and deep dives into the academic literature.
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Apr 15, 2024 • 43min
#3 – Thomas Wolf: Open-Source AI Scaling Laws
Thomas Wolf, Co-founder of Hugging Face, discusses the dominance of open-source AI, challenges in scaling foundational models, big tech companies' strategies, and power laws affecting the ecosystem in a complexity science fashion.
Mar 25, 2024 • 55min
#2 – Geoffrey West: The Scaling Laws Behind Living Organisms, Cities, Businesses, and Technologies
Physicist Geoffrey West discusses scaling laws in living organisms, cities, businesses, and technologies. Topics include power laws in mammal heartbeats, patents and crime in cities, technology scaling, and innovation. The conversation also dives into super-linearity in cities and companies, historical impacts on tech giants, and the need for interdisciplinary collaboration to understand scaling dynamics.
Mar 16, 2024 • 7min
Why “Scaling Theory”
In this first episode, Dr. Thibault Schrepel (@ProfSchrepel) introduces “Scaling Theory”, a podcast dedicated to the power laws behind the growth of companies, technologies, legal and living systems.
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References:
➝ Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859)
➝ Melanie Mitchell, Complexity: A Guided Tour (2011)
➝ Mitchell Waldrop, Complexity The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (2019)
➝ John H. Miller & Scott Page, Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (2007)
➝ W. Brian Arthur, Complexity and the Economy (2014)
➝ Geoffrey West, Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies (2017)
