Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Bend not Break #4: Modeling the Drivers of the Metacrisis”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Do You Need a Popular Zeitgeist to Change the System?
There's obviously a disproportionate amount of influence that some people have relative to other people if you run a major financial institution or you run a military or a nation state. All those people are hyperagents and they are going to try to optimize their surplus to get more power in the game. Unless they recognize that they're going to lose all that, we don't make it for very long as a species. The capacity for abstraction can allow us to see this whole conversation that you and i are having and say oh we actually have to get off of the current trajectory.
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