One of my biggest challenges is all along a, i'm an expert on describing the constraints of our situation. One of the reasons you have the pud gas is to help more understand the design criterio. The reason you're motivated to do that is not because you just like attention being on a podcast, but because more people understanding the criteria leads to more people's creativity working on solutions. We need a lot more people. Cllective intelligence, if it has the right imput can do something re obviously, that's why i'm talking with you here. Is the same kind of faith.
On this episode we meet with founding member of The Consilience Project, Daniel Schmachtenberger.
In the second of a four-part series, Nate and Daniel explore the relationship between energy, information, technology, the Superorganism, and the maximum power principle.
How can we maximize returns on agency? Nate and Daniel explain the importance of hyper agents: those humans who have an outsized influence on what’s happening in the world.
About Daniel Schmachtenberger:
Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue.
The throughline of his interests has to do with ways of improving the health and development of individuals and society, with a virtuous relationship between the two as a goal.
Towards these ends, he’s had particular interest in the topics of catastrophic and existential risk, civilization and institutional decay and collapse as well as progress, collective action problems, social organization theories, and the relevant domains in philosophy and science.
For Show Notes and Transcript visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/20-daniel-schmactenberger