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Saving Civilization: Healthcare, Tech, Democracy, & More (w/Daniel Schmachtenberger)
The ZDoggMD Show
The Thing We Want to Optimize for Is Not Definible, Right?
In a highly interconnected world, the thing that you're doing is still interacting with complexity. So whatever its effecting outside of what you're intending to effect will be negative externalities. And even if you see there's an external you can't do anything about it, because you're already bound to the metric you're optimizing. We have to pay attention to things that are outside of those metrics that matter and internalize that.
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