After discussing how the military intelligence community is hijacking AI through social engineering of social media, Dimes and Judas segue into a discussion of the book “The Collapse of Complex Societies” by Joseph Tainter. Accounting several histories of civilizations that have fallen across history, they explore how the nature of complexity itself is the problem for both its skyrocketing demands of energy processing, but also its internal coherence.
Timestamps:
00:00 – “Group Chats Rule the World” Article
08:16 – Discussion of “Reddit is a Psyop” by Flesh Simulator and Socially Engineering AI
16:48 – “Collapse of Complex Civilizations” Discussion Begins
18:48 – The Costs of a Complex Society are the Growth Ceiling
20:43 – A More Effective Definition of “Collapse”
24:31 – Examples of Complex Civilizations Which Collapsed
30:05 – The Symptoms of Collapse Within the Dominant Hierarchy
34:29 – The Crisis of Legitimacy Becoming Exponentially Expensive
35:36 – The Types of Early States
37:14 – Summary of all the Varied Explanations for Collapse
40:42 – The Problem of Increasing Demands of Energy to Process Information
44:37 – Growth Demands vs. Diminishing Returns for the Human Capital