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Daniel Schmachtenberger: Ai Risks & The Metacrisis

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

CHAPTER

The Asymmetries of Risk

We've talked about the faulty foundation of our monetary system. Daniel argues that post World War II, especially our economic system is not only encouraged but been dependent on exponential monetary growth. He believes that digital growth has physical costs because their hardware, their human attention limits their finite resources as he calls them. We've also talked about how moving to Mars won't save us, us being civilization. The idea of becoming an interplanetary species to escape resource limitations is unrealistic and ethically questionable.

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