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~TijlOil makes us 100x more productive - but it won't last forever. Excellent summary of how we got here and where we might be going by #NateHagens : https://youtu.be/uRIxJ4B3fNQ #TheGreatSimplification #Oil #IranWar #PeakOil
What You Actually Need to Know About Oil | Frankly 135
EvanWe should bring Nate Hagens to the Fediverse. I love his channel “The Great Simplification” if you haven’t watched yet please do! I’ve been learning so much. #natehagens #thegreatsimplification
Nate Hagens
The Great Simplification is a podcast that explores the systems science underpinning the human predicament. Through conversations with experts and leaders hosted by Dr. Nate Hagens, we explore topics spanning ecology, economics, energy, geopolitics, human behavior, and monetary/financial systems. Our goal is to provide a simple educational resource for the complex energetic, physical, and social constraints ahead, and to inspire people to play a role in our collective future. Ultimately, we aim to normalize these conversations and, in doing so, change the initial conditions of future events. The “Frankly” Video Playlist is where Nate takes a deeper dive into the concepts of his work, offers candid takes on the future implications of current events, and evokes thought-provoking questions to spur the dialogue about the human predicament.
mempkoThe best video series on oil by Nate Hagens
What You Actually Need to Know About Oil | Frankly 135
TAVAloniahttps://overcast.fm/+AA2tlXMwOGM
This is a really interesting interview discussing the potential issues of “AI” reliance…
#TheGreatSimplification
This is a really interesting interview discussing the potential issues of “AI” reliance…
#TheGreatSimplification
Hacking Human Attachment: The Loneliness Crisis, Cognitive Atrophy and other Personal Dangers of AI | RR 20 — The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Mainstream conversations about artificial intelligence tend to center around the technology’s economic and large-scale impacts. Yet it’s at the individual level where we’re seeing AI’s most potent effects, and they may not be what you think. Even in the limited time that AI chatbots have been publicly available (like Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc.), studies show that our increasing reliance on them wears down our ability to think and communicate effectively, and even erodes our capacity to nurture healthy attachments to others. In essence, AI is atrophying the skills that sit at the core of what it means to be human. Can we as a society pause to consider the risks this technology poses to our well-being, or will we keep barreling forward with its development until it’s too late? In this episode, Nate is joined by Nora Bateson and Zak Stein to explore the multifaceted ways that AI is designed to exploit our deepest social vulnerabilities, and the risks this poses to human relationships, cognition, and…
Eudaimon ꙮ"The Loneliness Crisis, Cognitive Atrophy, and Other Personal Dangers of AI" | RR 20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDyczqzjico
> (Conversation recorded on October 14th, 2025) Mainstream conversations about artificial intelligence tend to center around the technology’s economic and large-scale impacts. Yet it’s at the individual level where we’re seeing AI’s most potent effects, and they may not be what you think. Even in the limited time that AI chatbots have been publicly available (like Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc.), studies show that our increasing reliance on them wears down our ability to think and communicate effectively, and even erodes our capacity to nurture healthy attachments to others. In essence, AI is atrophying the skills that sit at the core of what it means to be human. Can we as a society pause to consider the risks this technology poses to our well-being, or will we keep barreling forward with its development until it’s too late?
> In this episode, Nate is joined by Nora Bateson and Zak Stein to explore the multifaceted ways that AI is designed to exploit our deepest social vulnerabilities, and the risks this poses to human relationships, cognition, and society. They emphasize the need for careful consideration of how technology shapes our lives and what it means for the future of human connection. Ultimately, they advocate for a deeper engagement with the embodied aspects of living alongside other people and nature as a way to counteract our increasingly digital world.
> What can we learn from past mass adaptation of technologies such as the invention of the world wide web or GPS when it comes to AI’s increasing presence in our lives? How does artificial intelligence expose and intensify the ways our culture is already eroding our mental health and capacity for human connection? And lastly, how might we imagine futures where technology magnifies the best sides of humanity – like creativity, cooperation, and care – rather than accelerating our most destructive instincts?
I know it's a YouTube video, but in such cases I recommend making an exception and watching them. I think these kind of conversations should happen mucho more, and be much more public, but of course, companies like Google are not at all interested in that, all the contrary. Nate Hagens continues to bring such an amazing array of diverse and interesting people (interesting because I think they bring very important messages, from many fields of knowledge and wisdom).
#TheGreatSimplification #RealityRoundtable #AI #AIDangers #NateHagens #NoraBateson #ZackStein #Collapse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDyczqzjico
> (Conversation recorded on October 14th, 2025) Mainstream conversations about artificial intelligence tend to center around the technology’s economic and large-scale impacts. Yet it’s at the individual level where we’re seeing AI’s most potent effects, and they may not be what you think. Even in the limited time that AI chatbots have been publicly available (like Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc.), studies show that our increasing reliance on them wears down our ability to think and communicate effectively, and even erodes our capacity to nurture healthy attachments to others. In essence, AI is atrophying the skills that sit at the core of what it means to be human. Can we as a society pause to consider the risks this technology poses to our well-being, or will we keep barreling forward with its development until it’s too late?
> In this episode, Nate is joined by Nora Bateson and Zak Stein to explore the multifaceted ways that AI is designed to exploit our deepest social vulnerabilities, and the risks this poses to human relationships, cognition, and society. They emphasize the need for careful consideration of how technology shapes our lives and what it means for the future of human connection. Ultimately, they advocate for a deeper engagement with the embodied aspects of living alongside other people and nature as a way to counteract our increasingly digital world.
> What can we learn from past mass adaptation of technologies such as the invention of the world wide web or GPS when it comes to AI’s increasing presence in our lives? How does artificial intelligence expose and intensify the ways our culture is already eroding our mental health and capacity for human connection? And lastly, how might we imagine futures where technology magnifies the best sides of humanity – like creativity, cooperation, and care – rather than accelerating our most destructive instincts?
I know it's a YouTube video, but in such cases I recommend making an exception and watching them. I think these kind of conversations should happen mucho more, and be much more public, but of course, companies like Google are not at all interested in that, all the contrary. Nate Hagens continues to bring such an amazing array of diverse and interesting people (interesting because I think they bring very important messages, from many fields of knowledge and wisdom).
#TheGreatSimplification #RealityRoundtable #AI #AIDangers #NateHagens #NoraBateson #ZackStein #Collapse
Prof LutzIf you have some time to correct someone wrong on the internet, @emilymbender (who doesn't? 😏 ) please comment under this Nate Hagens Frankly episode... He's a good guy, generally right on everything, macroeconomic, societal, environmental, etc.. but on LLMs... boy, he drank the Wall Street coolaid. Sad.
PS: I suggested he contact you 😏
The Quadruple Bifurcation | Frankly 112
"Why Humanity Is Better Than We Think" | Frankly 108
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ePY2MQ3-Q
> In this week’s Frankly, Nate reflects on intraspecies predation (ours) and the impact psychopathic actors have on the mean and median of human behavior – in the past all the way up to our modern society. Human evolution was shaped by both cooperative, pro-social behavior and a competitive, predatory approach for survival – resulting in a balanced distribution for most of humanity’s existence.
I highly recommend watching this "Frankly" from Nate Hagens. For everyone, but especially for those who think Humanity is doomed or should disappear. Where we are now is far from our actual baseline, which is much more cooperative and friendly. We are not the individualistic profit maximisers that we are mostly told we are.
#TheGreatSimplification #NateHagens #Frankly #psycopathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ePY2MQ3-Q
> In this week’s Frankly, Nate reflects on intraspecies predation (ours) and the impact psychopathic actors have on the mean and median of human behavior – in the past all the way up to our modern society. Human evolution was shaped by both cooperative, pro-social behavior and a competitive, predatory approach for survival – resulting in a balanced distribution for most of humanity’s existence.
I highly recommend watching this "Frankly" from Nate Hagens. For everyone, but especially for those who think Humanity is doomed or should disappear. Where we are now is far from our actual baseline, which is much more cooperative and friendly. We are not the individualistic profit maximisers that we are mostly told we are.
#TheGreatSimplification #NateHagens #Frankly #psycopathy
"Missing Words" - by Nate Hagens - The Great Simplification
https://natehagens.substack.com/p/missing-words
> How can we discuss and respond to our culture’s biggest challenges if we don’t even have the words to describe them?
Deep reflections on a certainly important topic: that of the language. When we lack a word to describe a concept, it's more difficult to use it, it might not even stick inside us. The concepts Nate brings are a few of some very fundamental ones we need in order to face the end of the carbon pulse, and to do it in a way that favours life in all its aspects (including the existence of homo sapiens). Otherwise we might end like many other disappeared civilisations, or even species.
#NateHagens #TheGreatSimplification #Collapse
https://natehagens.substack.com/p/missing-words
> How can we discuss and respond to our culture’s biggest challenges if we don’t even have the words to describe them?
Deep reflections on a certainly important topic: that of the language. When we lack a word to describe a concept, it's more difficult to use it, it might not even stick inside us. The concepts Nate brings are a few of some very fundamental ones we need in order to face the end of the carbon pulse, and to do it in a way that favours life in all its aspects (including the existence of homo sapiens). Otherwise we might end like many other disappeared civilisations, or even species.
#NateHagens #TheGreatSimplification #Collapse
"How Facing Grief Can Help Us Navigate a World in Crisis" | Reality Roundtable #17 - The Great Simplification
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFpnY-ooQhw
I hope you can find the time to listen to these three beautiful humans sharing "The Work That Reconnects", which is a 48 hour workshop or process I myself have participated once. Take the time to let all their words in, and hopefully allow yourself to have the faith that this works (I've lived it myself, and so have they, facilitating hundreds of such workshops, and seeing the impact they have).
It's not true that we humans are cancer for the planet. We can live in many other ways, much more respectful with Mother Nature and (therefore) ourselves. It's only this particular culture ("modernity", we could call it?) that seems to have really lost sight of what being a human is.
Also, I deeply recommend this podcast. Nate brings such rich (not talking about money, of course) and wise people, I've learnt son much!
Sorry for the youtube link. Other ways to listen to it: (sadly all big techs): https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/reality-roundtable-17
#TheGreatSimplification #NateHagens #SkyeCielitaFlor #JohnSeed #TheWorkThatReconnects #JoanaMacy #DeepEcology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFpnY-ooQhw
I hope you can find the time to listen to these three beautiful humans sharing "The Work That Reconnects", which is a 48 hour workshop or process I myself have participated once. Take the time to let all their words in, and hopefully allow yourself to have the faith that this works (I've lived it myself, and so have they, facilitating hundreds of such workshops, and seeing the impact they have).
It's not true that we humans are cancer for the planet. We can live in many other ways, much more respectful with Mother Nature and (therefore) ourselves. It's only this particular culture ("modernity", we could call it?) that seems to have really lost sight of what being a human is.
Also, I deeply recommend this podcast. Nate brings such rich (not talking about money, of course) and wise people, I've learnt son much!
Sorry for the youtube link. Other ways to listen to it: (sadly all big techs): https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/reality-roundtable-17
#TheGreatSimplification #NateHagens #SkyeCielitaFlor #JohnSeed #TheWorkThatReconnects #JoanaMacy #DeepEcology
