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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Complexity Versus Complexity

"I have a reverence for reality, but I know my best understanding of it is never complete," he says. "We find that Newtonian gravity can be super useful like ballistic curves and all kinds of super useful stuff." But in complex systems no matter how you model the complex system it will still have some emergent behavior not predicted by the model. 'Complicated means we can fully explicate the phase space of all the things that it can do'

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