What if All Government Spending Was on a Block Chain?

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At the heart of this are kind of deep existential questions of, what is a meaning for human life? And then what is a good civilization that increases the possibility space of that for everybody? We come back to block chain. We say, whell block chain is an ledger. Well, one thing the left and right and everybody agrees on is that we that corruption happens, and it's bad for the society's a whole. We just disagree on who does it. A is it possible that that tec could make possible decreasing corruption as a whole? It actually decreases the possibility set for corruption?"

We’ve explored many different problems on Your Undivided Attention — addiction, disinformation, polarization, climate change, and more. But what if many of these problems are actually symptoms of the same meta-problem, or meta-crisis? And what if a key leverage point for intervening in this meta-crisis is improving our collective capacity to problem-solve?

Our guest Daniel Schmachtenberger guides us through his vision for a new form of global coordination to help us address our global existential challenges. Daniel is a founding member of the Consilience Project, aimed at facilitating new forms of collective intelligence and governance to strengthen open societies. He's also a friend and mentor of Tristan Harris.

This insight-packed episode introduces key frames we look forward to using in future episodes. For this reason, we highly encourage you to listen to this unedited version along with the edited version.

We also invite you to join Daniel and Tristan at our Podcast Club! It will be on Friday, July 9th from 2-3:30pm PDT / 5-6:30pm EDT. Check here for details.