Cherry Pick Stats That Make It Look Like Everything Is Getting Better

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The techno pessimist and the techno optimist both cherry pick, and they both la co frame. And so these very simple semantic frames, contextual frames, cherry picking of the things, means that i can make a narrative where all the facts went through the most rigorous fact checker, and yet the narrative as a whole is misleading. It's important to understand that, depending upon what you pick, its just that the things that are getting worse are heading towards tipping points that make the whole thing no longer valuable. They both have stats, but this is actually, you cauld almost think of it as statistical warfare as a tool of narrative warfare.

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 unedited version along with the edited version.

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