Future Thinkers Daniel Schmachtenberger - Pt 1: Solving The Generator Functions of Existential Risks
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Jul 17, 2018 
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Existential Risk and Human Behavior
- Exponential technological advancements necessitate a shift in how humans approach competition and cooperation.
- The old tools of winning, like war and unrenewable resource extraction, now threaten our existence.
Inadequacy of Current Systems
- Current systems like capitalism, science, technology, and democracy, while beneficial, have created catastrophic problems.
- We need new solutions that go beyond iterative improvements.
Limitations of Democracy
- Current government processes, like democracy, inherently lead to polarization and conflict.
- We need better methods of collective sense-making and choice-making that consider all perspectives.