World War Two and World War Three

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After world war two we had enough technological power that catastrophic risk became a global possibility for the first time ever. That created the need to do something that humanity had never done, which was that the major super powers didn't war. And so we made an entire world system, a globalized world system, with the aim of preventing world orthree. But those set of solutions have ended and they have now created their own set of new problems. Now we're at a point where that radically positive sum economy required an exponential growth of the economy. We don't have two countries with one catastrophe weapon. It's really, really hard to make an easy to monitor, ecause it's is not

We’ve explored many different problems on Your Undivided Attention — addiction, disinformation, polarization, climate change, and more. But what if many of these problems are actually symptoms of the same meta-problem, or meta-crisis? And what if a key leverage point for intervening in this meta-crisis is improving our collective capacity to problem-solve?

Our guest Daniel Schmachtenberger guides us through his vision for a new form of global coordination to help us address our global existential challenges. Daniel is a founding member of the Consilience Project, aimed at facilitating new forms of collective intelligence and governance to strengthen open societies. He's also a friend and mentor of Tristan Harris.

This insight-packed episode introduces key frames we look forward to using in future episodes. For this reason, we highly encourage you to listen to this edited version along with the unedited version.

We also invite you to join Daniel and Tristan at our Podcast Club! It will be on Friday, July 9th from 2-3:30pm PDT / 5-6:30pm EDT. Check here for details.