4min chapter

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal cover image

Daniel Schmachtenberger: Ai Risks & The Metacrisis

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

CHAPTER

The Hypernormal Stimuli of Group Out Group Competitions

It's what porn does for the impulses to sexual connection associated with intimacy. And procreation, all like that is to extract the hypernormal stimuli from the rest of what makes it actually evolutionarily fit. Same thing in that home religion. You can offer people an artificial sense of certainty and offer them a sense of belonging and security without much actual deep philosophic consideration or necessarily even deep, new minutes experience. That similarly has the ability to scale more quickly than something where you want people to understand deeply discover things themselves.

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode