Global Coordination - The New Thing

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There are lots of countries with newks, but we also have lots of new catastrophe weapons that are not hard to make. It's really, really hard to make an easy to monitor, cause it's is not that many places that have uranium. And so when we talk about what the catastrophic risk landscape is like, how do we solve all that? That becomes the central imperative for the world at this time. There's really one that must supersede them all, which is to develop the capacity for global co ordination that can solve global problems.

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 unedited version along with the edited 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.