The Dueling Loops Videos List

These videos are the visual version of the Dueling Loops paper. They cover the Dueling Loops model, how it works, and what it implies. Start with the first one.

1. Overview of the Dueling Loops, 11 minutes

Part One: Basic Concepts
2. The Discovery of the Sustainability Problem by the LTG Project, 6 min
3. The Basic Concept of Feedback Loops, with Pop Growth, 9 min
4. How Simulation Models Work, with Pop Growth, 10 min
5. The Importance of Structural Thinking, 3 types, 8 min

Part Two: Deriving the Basic DL Shape from Past System Behavior
6. What Jared Diamond’s Collapse Book Attempted to Do, 6 min
7. Extracting the Competitive Spiral from Collapse, 8 min
8. The Two Fundamental Opposed Loops of All Political Systems, 5 min
9. The Four Loop Model of Why Some Societies Collapsed, 7 min
10. The Basic Dueling Loops Shape, 15 min

Part Three: How the Basic DL Simulation Model Works
11. The Race to the Bottom Simulation Model, 6 min
12. The Five Main Types of Political Deception, 18 min

 

NOTE - The rest of this series was originally planned to include the following additional videos. However, this project has been replaced by the full length film project.

13. The Race to the Top, added from scratch
14. Classic Activism as the Main Traditional Way to Push on the Truth Node

Part Four: The Key Insights of the DL Structure
15. The Inherent Advantage of the Race to the Bottom, added
16. Due to this inherent advantage, the RTB is easily exploited, w examples
17. The current exploiter is the New Dominant Life Form
18. The High Leverage Point of Ability to Detect Pol. Deception, added
19. The Cyclic Nature of the Dueling Loops, don’t show add, just graphs

20. Summary and Conclusions (ideas listed, not separate videos)
   - List assumptions for basic shape.
   - If true, then all the insights are probably true.
   - List insights, possibly with memorable thumbnail for each
   - End with: Does the DL structure exist?
   - If so, how can we best push on the HLP?

Download

The first 11 videos are available for download for offline use in this 36 MB zip file ^ZIP . After unzipping it and preserving the directory structure, double click on the index.htm file to get started. The videos require the Flash plugin. If you have trouble running them from the index.htm file, try the Video.html file in each directory.