Geoffrey West, physicist and former president of the Santa Fe Institute, joins Jamin Coller to explore scaling laws, sustainability, innovation, and the accelerating pace of modern civilization.

West explains why cities and economies speed up as they grow, why innovation repeatedly postpones collapse while making future crises arrive faster, and what a mathematical “singularity” actually means — as distinct from popular AI narratives. The discussion moves into politics, belief, religion, and why rapid belief change under Donald Trump gives West an unexpected, fragile optimism.

"Scale" by Geoffrey West: https://a.co/d/3NIRLO0

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