Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Bend not Break #2: Maximum Power and Hyper Agents”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Arms Race and the Tragedy of the Commons
There is a perverse game theory on paying attention to opportunity versus risk. As i'm developing the capacity to do that cheaply, anybody can use it for any purpose - like buy weapons or make more cancer. So all of these, the market race, which ends at being a race to the bottom, externality wise are examples of multi polar trap. Humanity has to solve for that thing categorically. There are ways, i believe, of solving for it categorically. And there are examples of where we've done it on local scales. We just haven't solved for it categorical. You antto come back to that yet.
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