From an energy perspective, obviously, a it takes some energy to get new energy. So long as i'm getting more energy out than the energy i'm putting in, atd make sense to do it. I'll always seek the maximum energy return on energy investment. But as the maximum decreases, i'll continue to do anything that gives me some energy return energy investment. That's also true ith fiscal return on fiscal investment. And from a game theory point of view, any agent in a game theoretic situation is going to try to maximize their returns on agency. A good hyper agent is someone who figures out how to do that at maximum scale. Ah, they are better at game
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