is faster than a linear trend. The easiest way to understand superlinearity is to look at a graph of three lines, one linear, one sublinear, and one superlinear.
So some aspects of a city are sublinear and that’s desirable. That creates economies of scale which work in our favour. But some things in our envisioned global city are superlinear, and that, according to the authors, is the crux of the problem facing technological civilizations. Superlinearity leads to what the authors call singularities.
So tension sits at the heart of the civilization as it reaches global status. Singularities arise and are overcome by resets or innovations. But what if the time between these critical singularities keeps shrinking? At that point, the planetary civilization “… will face an ‘asymptotic burnout’, an ultimate crisis where the singularity-interval time scale becomes smaller than the time scale of innovation.
One path is collapse. The asymptotic burnout that the authors talk about is kind of like the Great Filter. Every technological civilization that controls a planet eventually faces it. If there are or were other civilizations somewhere out there in space, maybe many of them slammed into asymptotic burnout and then just collapsed.In a homeostatic awakening, a global civilization becomes aware of its predicament and its trajectory.
This figure from the study shows three different scenarios for a civilization on an asymptotic burnout trajectory. The top civilization reaches burnout without realizing it in advance. The middle civilization sees burnout coming but is unable to reach homeostasis before burning out. The bottom civilization sees burnout coming and successfully reorients itself toward homeostasis. Image Credit: Wong and Bartlett 2022.
You don't hear from advanced aliens races civilizations because earth mankind is very primitive with very limited intelligence as warriors race that violent & racist against others and causes death and destruction everywhere they go Mankind is 400years behind scientific sciences
And we'd be wise to do the same
petervhale They have the capability to travel to this part of the solar system, we take joy rides to space in phallic shaped rockets, fill our low earth orbit with junk & poison our planet, we could make life fair for everyone, but humans are selfish and greedy - they are staying well away
We are aliens to them too — have they heard from us yet? Exactly.
Can you blame them?
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