How Do We Manage Expendential Risk Without Diving Into Oppression or Chaos?

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There are two bad attractors that were currently getting cold towards, says Daniel. Oppression looks like china's digit authoritarianism model, ruled by the state above. Or we can have chaos onstantiated by the west's democratic disfunction wor expedential technologies aren't really managed at all. So how do we manage lobalexistential risk without divolving into oppression or chaos? What could a new attractor be? I think it was a jefferson quote of the ultimate depository of the power must be the people. And if we think the people too uneducated and unenlightened to be able to hold that power, we must everything we can to seek to

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 edited version along with the unedited 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.