Navigating Modern Warfare: Challenges and Implications

✨ DEBRIEF ✨ | Unpacking the Episode: https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/debrief-demetri 

------ Demetri Kofinas is a digital entrepreneur and host of the Hidden Forces Podcast, one of our favorites. 

Demetri has a broad perspective on geopolitics, which we explore as we discuss the probability of a World War 3, diplomacy among superpowers, and surviving the rise of the machines.

Have we lost the ability to solve hard problems as a species? 

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------ Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro - Demetri Kofinas 6:30 Hidden Forces 10:26 Towards Chaos 18:00 Cyclical Powers 23:15 Taiwan Case Study 28:30 Trusting Institutions 31:23 State Sovereignty 37:50 Military Power & US Politics 45:00 Liminal Warfare 51:00 Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us 1:00:35 Chinese Algorithms 1:06:15 Unity, Diversity, Identity 1:12:05 Layer Zero Social Values 1:20:05 Losing Our Humanity 1:25:00 Cycling through Chaos 1:28:40 Improving Systems 1:37:30 Closing

------ Resources:

Demetri on Twitter https://twitter.com/kofinas?s=20&t=cNy4k855qT6O3xHtEC6xZw 

Hidden Forces https://hiddenforces.io/ 

Theories of War with David Kilcullen https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/david-kilcullen-national-emergency/ 

Episode 28 - Industrial Society and its Future https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/demetri-kofinas-industrial-society-and-its-future/ 

Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/ 

Brave New World https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060850523 

The Fourth Turning https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Turning-American-Prophecy-Rendezvous/dp/0767900464 

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