A, ok, so yes, i have described the system as a we self organize as families, small businesses, corporations, nation states to optimize surplus. But it's not really surplus, it's fin representations of surplus. And that's tetherd to energy, tether to carbon. And that this system is out of control as a superorganism, a super organism. A, and it's no longer in anyone's control. There's no politician or billionaire that is actually steering it. The momentum world wide of making decision to keep that optimized suppresses any other paths of wisdom or constraint that might be totally viable and make sense. I thank you for your kind words on the book.
On this episode we meet with founding member of The Consilience Project, Daniel Schmachtenberger.
In the second of a four-part series, Nate and Daniel explore the relationship between energy, information, technology, the Superorganism, and the maximum power principle.
How can we maximize returns on agency? Nate and Daniel explain the importance of hyper agents: those humans who have an outsized influence on what’s happening in the world.
About Daniel Schmachtenberger:
Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue.
The throughline of his interests has to do with ways of improving the health and development of individuals and society, with a virtuous relationship between the two as a goal.
Towards these ends, he’s had particular interest in the topics of catastrophic and existential risk, civilization and institutional decay and collapse as well as progress, collective action problems, social organization theories, and the relevant domains in philosophy and science.
For Show Notes and Transcript visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/20-daniel-schmactenberger