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#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Application of Digital Technologies and Expanding Technology

We want to kind of order at various scales from the conflicting parts of ourself actually having more harmony than they might have. The nuke gave us a novel problem landscape and so that required this whole Bretton Woods world. Our existing problem solving processes aren't doing a good job. We need better ones that can do the speed and scale of the current issues right nowSpeed is one of the other big things is that by the time we regulated DDT out of existence or cigarettes not for people under 18 they'd already killed so many people, he says.

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