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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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How Do We Have a Protopic Future?

There's a gradient where entropy is easier and there's a lot more ways to put a set of things together that don't work than the few that really do produce higher order synergies. So what so to say, how do we have a protopic future? We have to say, well, one criteria must be that it avoids all of the catastrophic risks. Can we inventory all the catastrophic risk? Can we inventory the patterns of human behavior that give rise to them? And could we try to solve for that?

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