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#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Conscious Consumption Side of the Supply Chain

Growth of GDP rapidly and exponentially accelerated the planetary boundary side. You can't run an exponentially growing linear materials economy on a finite planet forever. Every new type of technology that has emerged has created an arms race. And so you get a three body problem, when you have multiple agents and multiple different types of catastrophe weapons. There's no way to deal with them at scale where even state actors can have them.

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