The Portal 27: Daniel Schmachtenberger - On Avoiding Apocalypses
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Self-Terminating Systems
- Current societal systems are self-terminating due to rivalrous dynamics and exponential tech growth.
- A new type of civilization is needed to mitigate catastrophic and existential risks.
Limits to Growth
- Current economic growth models rely on finite resources and create environmental problems.
- A closed-loop materials economy is necessary but not sufficient for long-term sustainability.
Exponential Tech and Risk
- Humanity has been lucky to avoid self-destruction, but exponential tech increases the risk.
- More powerful tech becomes more accessible, leading to multipolar scenarios.
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Introduction
00:00 • 1min
The Gated Institutional Narrative
01:29 • 3min
The Covet Virus - What's Going On?
04:18 • 2min
Triage Deaths From the Coved Virus
06:22 • 4min
Athletic Greens - The Best Dietary Supplement Ever!
10:12 • 3min
The Corono Virus - A Review
13:09 • 2min
The World's Worst Anti-Mushroom Message
14:52 • 4min
Is There Any Kind of Rigorous Thinking in the World?
18:23 • 4min
Are You Seeing a Decision Tree That Looks Like This?
22:38 • 3min
Hack in the Source Code
25:56 • 2min
Is There a Need for Ongoing Economic Growth?
28:23 • 2min
Is There a Name for the Pie That's Growing, but Where Most People Stalk?
30:10 • 2min
Is There a Need for a Close Loop Materials Economy?
32:04 • 4min
Are We Going to Get Another 50 Years Out of It?
36:07 • 3min
The Expedential Growth of Computing Power
39:10 • 4min
Are We Good Stewards of Power?
42:49 • 3min
Are We Going to Be Surprised When Someone Is Writing Off
45:32 • 2min
The Expendital Increase in Destructive Capacity
47:49 • 3min
How to Disinform Without Even Lying, Right?
50:20 • 3min
The Personal Responsibility Vortex
53:14 • 2min
Are You Optimistic About Game B?
54:49 • 2min
Liberal Democracy
56:26 • 2min
Is There a Multipolar Trap?
58:09 • 4min
Is There a Game Theory Advance in Multipolar Traps?
01:01:46 • 3min
The Game Theory of Natural and Sexual Selection
01:04:21 • 2min
Is Sub Lethal Technology Increasing Violence?
01:05:58 • 2min
The a G I, the Robots Are Going to Kill Us All
01:08:08 • 3min
Capitalism Is a Bottom Up Coordination System
01:11:23 • 2min
The Market Is a Precursor to an a G I
01:13:26 • 2min
Do You Think Markets Are Good or Awsome?
01:15:09 • 3min
The Gated Institutional Narrative Cannot Look at Certain Very Basic Facts
01:17:40 • 2min
The Gated Institutional Narrative Is Informed by Our Experience
01:19:56 • 3min
Is the European Union a Recipe for Disaster?
01:22:38 • 5min
Parent Child Conflict and Biology
01:27:53 • 2min
The Pessimism of the Pending Collapse
01:29:50 • 2min
Why Aren't We More Successful?
01:32:14 • 3min
What's Really Causing Coral Die Off?
01:35:22 • 3min
Is Time Well Expended?
01:38:43 • 3min
I Want Immigration Restricted
01:41:23 • 3min
We Did Have a Dirty Tricks Unit Inside of the Fbi
01:44:14 • 4min
The Social Cost of Listening to Us
01:47:49 • 5min
Is There Any Incentive for Disinformation?
01:52:38 • 4min
Having a Bigger Tribal Circle
01:56:26 • 3min
Is It a Bad Idea to Game Your Guest?
01:59:47 • 3min
Is There an Appropriate Biomemicry Example?
02:02:24 • 4min
Reputational Warfare
02:06:34 • 4min
The Evolution of Predation
02:10:30 • 3min
Orcas Are Not the Apex Preditor of the Seas
02:13:44 • 2min
Homo Sapiens - What's Particularly, a Primary Thing About Humans?
02:15:26 • 2min
I've Barly Mad as a Rule, You've Plained Me Against Me
02:17:01 • 2min
The Human Condition Can Do Both of Those
02:18:51 • 3min
I'm on the Escape Branch of Our Decision Tree
02:21:25 • 2min
I'm Starting to Guess Where You're Going to Go
02:23:02 • 2min
Do You Think We Should Embrace Declining Populations?
02:25:00 • 2min
The Opportunity Costs of Staying Home and Raising Children
02:26:40 • 2min
Youan You Can Die From Abundance
02:28:41 • 2min
Buddhism and Buddhism in Asia - A Brief History of the World, Part I
02:30:32 • 2min
The Floor Is Yours, Dane?
02:32:04 • 3min
Do We Have a Coordination Mechanism?
02:35:10 • 5min
I Want You to Have More Status
02:40:32 • 3min
Do We Still Have Exponentally Growing Technology?
02:43:26 • 4min
Are You Teaching Your Child to Strike First?
02:46:57 • 2min
Can We Find Adults That Are at the Cutting Edge of Collaborative Intelligence?
02:49:26 • 4min
Is Fanaticism a Good Idea?
02:53:13 • 2min
The Ethical Importance of Development
02:54:58 • 2min
Is There Still a Beautiful Dream, Is It Still Beautiful?
02:57:27 • 3min
Millennials Are More Interested In, What Have You Purchased and Purchased Recently?
03:00:07 • 2min
The Biggest Problem With Discussing Sexuality
03:01:51 • 2min
Is There a Crisis in the Theory of Selection?
03:03:47 • 4min
Status and Sexuality Go Mostly Together
03:08:02 • 2min
I've Been Uncomfortable With Status, You Know?
03:09:50 • 2min
Is There a Lot of Status That Is Not Going to Be a Good Thing?
03:11:51 • 3min
Hypernormal Stimuli Are Good for Markets
03:15:11 • 2min
Is There a Limit to How Wonderful the Can Be?
03:17:10 • 3min
Is There a World of Pleasure?
03:20:21 • 3min
Are You a Slow Learner?
03:23:48 • 2min
The Transcendent Beyond the Proximate Sematic Pleasures That We Have, Is So Rarely Experienced at Scale
03:25:37 • 2min
What Is Healthy Psychology?
03:27:08 • 2min
Is It Inexorable? I Don't Think So
03:28:49 • 3min
Is There a Need for Universality?
03:31:58 • 2min
The Portal With Daniel Scmachden Burger, Eric Weinsin, Thanks for Coming Through and Will See You Next Time
03:34:17 • 2min
In this second episode of the Portal to be released during shelter-in-place restrictions during the Corona Virus Pandemic, we release an older discussion with Daniel Shmachtenberger on whether there is any plausible long term scenario for human flourishing confined to a single shared planet.
Daniel is seen as a leader of the growing Game B subculture of the human potential movement. This group bets that there is a second evolutionary stable strategy for cohabiting not based on conflict or rivalry, even for life raised in Game A (i.e. standard evolutionary and economic environments based on scarcity and rivalrous goods. Eric asks Daniel about where the bright spots and progress might be in this movement which refuses to accept the fate that that Eric has elsewhere put forward as the Twin Nuclei Problem of having unlocked the power of both Cell and Atom in the early 1950s without the wisdom to use it.
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