Modern Wisdom

#348 - Daniel Schmachtenberger - Building Better Sensemaking

Jul 22, 2021

02:07:49

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Is Facebook Optimized for Well-Being or Happiness?

05:05

Are You Dubious of Social Science?

03:53

Social Media - Is There a Filter Bubble?

02:50

Introduction

5min

Shared Sense Making as a Prerequisite for Shared Choice Making

4min

The Philosophy of Science - What Is It?

5min

Participatory Governance

5min

How Fast Does It Really End Up Been?

4min

Do I Have Choice?

4min

Sense Making - I Got It!

2min

Are There Two Primary Narrative Camps?

6min

Why Do People Get Scared of the Dark?

4min

10.

The Best Gift Someone Can Give Me Is Where They Actually Tell Me

2min

11.

Social Media - Is There a Filter Bubble?

3min

12.

Curate Your Algorithm

4min

13.

CrossFit

3min

14.

The Labelling Hypothesis Is a Great Example

4min

15.

The Conciliants Project Is a Good Identifier

4min

16.

What Is a Good Sense Making Agent?

4min

17.

The Love of Reality Is the Basis of the Meaningfulness of Anything

2min

18.

Is There a Way to Help the World?

4min

19.

The Passion of the Christ Is Not Just 'Ooh I Can See Your Pain' It's a Real Thing

5min

20.

How to Transcend the Parts of Self That Are Just Too Hard

2min

21.

Are We Just Too at the Mercy of Our Emotions to Reach Our Civilizational Potential?

2min

22.

Are You Dubious of Social Science?

4min

23.

Development Is Not Factored

3min

24.

How Can a Jewish Family Raised Better Educated Kids?

3min

25.

How Do We Create an Economic System That Addresses Perverse Incentives?

3min

26.

Human Nature in the Modern World

4min

27.

The Luddite View of the Techno Pessimist

5min

28.

Is There a Dystopic Control System?

3min

29.

Is Facebook Optimized for Well-Being or Happiness?

5min

30.

Is There a Way to Make It Worse?

2min

31.

Rule of Law

5min

32.

Why Haven't We Created a Breakaway Civilization?

2min

33.

The Challenge of Global Coordination

3min

34.

The Mars Colony Is a Good Idea for a New Civilization

4min

35.

The Constraints of Mars

2min

36.

What Can People Expect From You Over the Next Few Months?

3min

Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience Project and works in preventing global catastrophic risk.

Having accurate sensemaking is a superpower in the 21st century. As the volume of information we need to sort through increases, the ability to distinguish signal from noise becomes ever more important. Given this, I wanted to ask Daniel exactly how he would advise someone to become an adept sensemaker.

Expect to learn the characteristics that a good sensemaking agent should have, why the relationship between sense, meaning and choice making is so crucial, whether Daniel thinks that humanity is too emotional to reach our full potential, at what stage of personal actualisation we should begin to help the world and much more...

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