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#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Relationship Between the Individual and the Collective
I would indeed ask the question the same way but I would be less confident about your conclusions. The evolutionary adaptiveness of humans was involved critically group selection and individual humans alone trying to figure out stone tools and protection aren't what was selected for. And so I think the OR is the wrong frame. Individuals are affecting the group that they're a part of. They're also dependent upon and being affected by the group thatthey're part of. So a good social system would be one where the organisms of the individual and the organism of the group of individuals are both synergistic to each other. What is best for the individuals and what's best for the whole is aligned.
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