If you don't have the ability to make a system wide agreement and enforce it, then you get those kinds of race to the bottom. Unless everybody can, nobody can that kind of thing. We're just agreeing to a seed power of the world to a different power system. If they build nooks, we have to build nooks,. cause otherwise, whoever doesn't have the nuks loses... And i'm basically representing any advanced nation states thinking right now. We have to build the air weapons ecause they are. The tragedy of the commons is one example. A arms race is another. It gets worse when you start to get very fast areas of new tec i don't
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