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.
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