Sunday, June 22, 2014

the maximum power principle traps you humans in an evolutionary loop...,


jayhanson |  Since natural selection occurs under thermodynamic laws, individual and group behaviors are biased by the MPP to generate maximum power, which requires over-reproduction and/or over-consumption of resources[3] whenever system constraints allow it. Individuals and families will form social groups to generate more power by degrading more energy. Differential power generation and accumulation result in a hierarchical group structure.

Overshoot eventually leads to decreasing power attainable for the group with lower-ranking members suffering first. Low-rank members will form subgroups and coalitions to demand a greater share of power from higher-ranking individuals who will resist by forming their own coalitions to maintain it. Meanwhile, social conflict will intensify as available power continues to fall.

Eventually, members of the weakest group (high or low rank) are forced to “disperse.”[4] Those members of the weak group who do not disperse are killed,[5] enslaved, or in modern times imprisoned. By most estimates, 10 to 20 percent of Stone-Age people died at the hands of other humans. The process of overshoot, followed by forced dispersal, may be seen as a sort of repetitive pumping action—a collective behavioral loop—that drove humans into every inhabitable niche.

Here is a synopsis of the behavioral loop described above:

Step 1. Individual and group behaviors are biased by the MPP to generate maximum power, which requires over-reproduction and/or over-consumption of natural resources (overshoot), whenever systemic constraints allow it. Individuals and families will form social groups to generate more power by degrading more energy. Differential power generation and accumulation result in a hierarchical group structure.
Step 2. Energy is always limited, so overshoot eventually leads to decreasing power available to the group, with lower-ranking members suffering first.
Step 3. Diminishing power availability creates divisive subgroups within the original group. Low-rank members will form subgroups and coalitions to demand a greater share of power from higher-ranking individuals, who will resist by forming their own coalitions to maintain power.
Step 4. Violent social strife eventually occurs among subgroups who demand a greater share of the remaining power.
Step 5. The weakest subgroups (high or low rank) are either forced to disperse to a new territory, are killed, enslaved, or imprisoned.
Step 6. Go back to step 1.


The above loop was repeated countless thousands of times during the millions of years that we were evolving[6]. This behavior is entrained in our genetic material and will be repeated until we go extinct. Carrying capacity will decline [7] with each future iteration of the overshoot loop, and this will cause human numbers to decline until they reach levels not seen since the Pleistocene.

Current models used to predict the end of the biosphere suggest that sometime between 0.5 billion to 1.5 billion years from now, land life as we know it will end on Earth due to the combination of CO2 starvation and increasing heat. It is this decisive end that biologists and planetary geologists have targeted for attention. However, all of their graphs reveal an equally disturbing finding: that global productivity will plummet from our time onward, and indeed, it already has been doing so for the last 300 million years.[8]

It’s impossible to know the details of how our rush to extinction will play itself out, but we do know that it is going to be hell for those who are unlucky to be alive at the time.

4 comments:

CNu said...

The end-of-life parasitic elderly, pretending they're owed for the catastrophic and evolutionarily unforgivable errors of their "greatest generation" racism, suburban sprawl, and generalized conspicuous consumption - really DO gotta go, gotta go, gotta go....,

Constructive_Feedback said...

Big Don One:


There is a blogger named "Noah The African" who I used to battle on every point.
The greatest piece of information that he bestowed upon me was "The Crash Course".


If you look at "America" today - both left and right solve their problems using MAGIC MONEY - the right with corporate/military subsidy - the left crafting faux social solutions by tapping the national treasury.


BOTH are going to see their house of cards tumble once the greatest fraud scheme in human history - The "US Federal Reserve System" is no longer able to purchase Treasury Bonds that represent the fake money that the US Treasury has floated.


The Federal Reserve's books grew from $800 billion in bond holdings in 2008 up to $4.5 trillion by 2012".
It is the American economy's "Credit Card Advance" scheme when it does not have the money to pay the rent but is unwilling to reduce its living expenses.


Janet Yellin says that she will begin to sell off these bonds to the market in order to improve the books.
ONE DAY the market is not going to purchase this confidence debt -- and so will go the US economy.

DD said...

This is a typical, but stupid argument. You are conflating money and power, when in fact money is just a proxy for power.


As I've piqueishly said before, the two major exports of the US are food and weapons. That's power. The financials just reflect the reality, they don't create it.


The "house of cards" magic money isn't going to collapse (the form may change, the power distribution likely won't). It's just a vehicle to deliver the vassals tithes to the power center.


The market will do what it's told. The same guys who say it's rigged and run by a cabal also say the market will reject the unrecoverable debt. It's rigged or it's not. Since it's rigged, we can assume they'll keep buying.


If I have no money, but more guns and all the food--who is rich?

John Kurman said...

- especially when the only universally programmable self-replicating robots to hand are all food powered!

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