Asa: My belief is the sacredness of the natural world that we inhabit and share with ten million other species, that is what really matters at the end of the day. Technology directly influences our behavior; there's a coupling between these. Tech affects it in complex set of positive and negative ways very much in the same way that will produce some externalising things but also internalise them as well. The goal that asa has is, can we make a play in superstructure? Can we somehow bind our economic incentive on our use of hnology and economics and technology are related?"
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