Daniel Pauly: “Peak Fish and Other Ocean Realities” | The Great Simplification #15

On this episode, we meet with Professor at the University of British Columbia and Founder of Sea Around Us, Dr. Daniel Pauly.
Dr. Pauly shares the role warming sea water plays in fish migration. How do warming temperatures affect water oxygen levels and fish behavior?
Dr. Pauly explains that the world has passed peak fish, and why contemporary metrics do not always paint a complete picture of our dire situation.
Dr. Daniel Pauly is a Killam Professor at the University of British Columbia, the Founder of the Sea Around Us, and author of more than a dozen books.
Show Notes - (linked notes at www.thegreatsi... )
00:45 - Tristan Harris info, Center for human technology
02:33 - The Social Dilemma
03:24 - Facebook market stock
06:02 - Nate’s Book and Animated Videos
06:33 - Social Dilemma production team
07:34 - Race to the bottom of the brainstem for attention
09:03 - Tiktok automatic beautification
09:42 - Collective action problem
11:29 - Runaway growth imperative
12:20 - Captured facts and shared understanding/reality
14:33 - Tiktok surpasses Facebook for time spent on Android
15:22 - Externalities of digital infrastructure
16:55 - Walter Cronkite
17:47 - E.O. Wilson
18:07 - We were evolved for a different environment
19:04 - Fitness matters more than truth
20:06 - Energy blind
22:06 - Frances Haugen
22:18 - Parents in the age of social media
23:32 - Downward causation and the financial market
25:52 - Aza Raskin - infinite scroll + TGS Episode with Aza Raskin
29:15 - Highly intelligent species eventually try to understand themselves
29:47 - Loss aversion
32:29 - Frank Luntz
34:01 - Laura Borodinsky
34:25 - George Lakoff Metaphors We Live By
35:07 - Evolutionary Psychology
35:54 - Ontological design
37:23 - We assume others think like us - but they don’t
42:33 - Countries manipulating social media algorithms
45:55 - AI can predict big 5 personality traits based on mouse/eye movement
46:23 - AI can predict our micro expressions
49:23 - Tech Fiduciaries Act
50:17 - Stanford Marshmallow Experiment
51:08 - Superorganism
51:47 - Social media undermines mindfulness efforts
53:10 - More in Common
53:33 - Extreme voices and overrepresentation
53:50 - False beliefs between about opposing political parties
56:50 - Taiwan and digital democracy and online polling system
57:50 - Your Undivided Attention - Audrey Tang
1:02:52 - TGS Episode with Jamie Wheal
1:04:09 - Nate’s Earth Day Talks
1:05:48 - TGS Episode with Nora Bateson
1:09:57 - Don’t Look Up
1:13:49 - The Maybe Story
1:17:22 - Biden State of the Union
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