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Saving Civilization: Healthcare, Tech, Democracy, & More (w/Daniel Schmachtenberger)

Feb 11, 2022

02:41:20

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Daniel Schmachtenberger

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The Printing Press, Working memory and Democracy

05:16

Democracy Is Going To Degrade Into This Situation

01:37

How to Integrate the Two Sides of Complexity

02:49

Evolutionary mismatch of social media

02:36

Introduction

3min

We're Able to Over Hunt an Environment

3min

Homo Sapiens

2min

How to Maximize Addiction

3min

Adapt the Type of Creature

2min

The Evolution of Polyamorous Mating Systems

6min

Is Birth Control a Good Idea?

3min

How to Integrate the Two Sides of Complexity

2min

Is There a Reward Circuit for Understanding Other Perspectives?

2min

10.

The One Marshmallow to Marsh Mellow Thing

2min

11.

Are You Getting a Reward?

2min

12.

Hormesus Is the Property of Systems to Up Regulate Their Capacity

2min

13.

Is There a Reward Circuit for Capitalism?

3min

14.

Is There a Game Theory Optimization to Maximize Optionality?

2min

15.

Addiction Is a Good Way to Optimize Lifetime Revenue of a Customer

2min

16.

I've Been Noticing a Lot Lately, Because It's Supernatural at Reading My Mind

2min

17.

The Risk Reward Calculus and the Risk Tolerance Calculus

2min

18.

You Can, I Can, but You'll Pick Others.

4min

19.

Are You the Right Gay to Do It?

3min

20.

The Science of Government Is the Number One Goal of the Federal Government

3min

21.

Social Media and Sub Clinical Mental Illness

2min

22.

Social Media and the Epistemic Complaints

3min

23.

How to Think Cynically, the Forty Eight Laws of Power

3min

24.

Post Cynical, Good Faith Communication

4min

25.

Sub Clinical Mental Illness

4min

26.

Are We Adaptable?

3min

27.

Social Media

3min

28.

Sub Clinical Toxicity

3min

29.

Sub Clinical Narcotic Personality Disorder

3min

30.

Psychiatry

5min

31.

Democracy Is Going to Degrade Into This Situation

2min

32.

Social Media Is a Different Kind of Tac

5min

33.

I Optimized My Ads

2min

34.

The Ais Optimize for Engagement

3min

35.

I've Tasted This

1min

36.

Is It Just a Question of Intelligent Design of This Stuff?

5min

37.

The Plough and the Evolution of Humanity

6min

38.

Is There a Threading of the Ness?

4min

39.

Are You Optimizing for Electrical Score?

3min

40.

The Perverse Incentives of the Fossil Fuel Industry

2min

41.

What's the Need for Humanity to Survive?

3min

42.

Meditation Retreat - Is the Most Easy Thing I Can Talk About?

1min

43.

How Important Is That Kind of Technology?

5min

44.

Is There a Difference Between Right and Left Brain?

2min

45.

What Is the Fundamental Basis of Conflict?

3min

46.

The Thing We Want to Optimize for Is Not Definible, Right?

3min

47.

Health Care

3min

48.

Is There a Single Cause of a Chronic Disease?

3min

49.

How to Patent Indogenous Molecules

3min

50.

The Future of Medicine Is More Shamonic Than Procedure

2min

51.

Are You Going to Reduce Nurses to Pill Pushers?

2min

52.

The Future of Human Intelligence

2min

53.

The Application of Big Data in Medicine

3min

54.

Public Education

2min

55.

You're Really Unique, Daniel!

2min

Daniel Schmachtenberger studies existential risk. Here's how we might thread an Alt-Middle way to a civilization whose tech, healthcare, social structures, and built environment promote well being rather than divisional apocalypse.

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