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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The New Expanding Technology Is Creating a Better Emergent Order

The authoritarian state started applying the exponential tech intentionally to make more effective authoritarian states and that's everything from like an internet of things surveillance system going into machine learning systems. We have basically a new feudalism controlling exponential tech and authoritarian nation states controlling it and those attractors are both shitty, so I'm interested in the application of exponential tech to making better social tech that makes emergent order possible.

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