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[Unedited] A Problem Well-Stated is Half-Solved — with Daniel Schmachtenberger

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Jun 25, 2021

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Daniel Schmachtenberger

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Meta Crisis Root Patterns

Many global crises stem from interconnected problems with shared underlying patterns.
Addressing these core drivers is crucial to solving seemingly separate issues like climate change and overfishing.

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Exponential Tech Explained

Exponential technologies improve themselves recursively, causing rapid, nonlinear growth.
This compounding progress challenges human intuition and demands new frameworks for governance and adaptation.

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Tech Drives Social Systems

Historical tech advances led to new social systems like nation-states and democracies.
Current exponential tech requires new social technologies compatible with today’s scale and complexity.

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Is There an Increase in Catastrophic Risks?

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Are the Patterns of Human Behavior Increasing Catastrophic Risk?

05:08 • 4min

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Is It Impossible to Solve Climate Changes on Its Own?

08:57 • 3min

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The Catastrophic Risk Landscape

11:40 • 2min

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Using a Problem Solving Framework

13:32 • 3min

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The Arms Race and the Tragedy of the Commons

16:21 • 1min

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The Central Question of Our Time

17:50 • 2min

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The World After World War Two

20:14 • 3min

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The Industrial Revolution and the Material Economy

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A Linear Materials Economy That Drives Catastrophic Risks

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Global Coordination - The New Thing

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Is There a Future for Expedential Technologies?

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It Was the Biggest Jump in Technology Ever

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Is There a Future in Expedential Technology?

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The Self Compounding Loop

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The Nature of Monopoly Theory

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Social Technologies and Democracy

42:56 • 2min

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The Fourth Estate Is Just Dead Forever

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We Need New Social Systems

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The Social Systems of the Future

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The Next Social System

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Conflict Theory Versus Mistake Theory - What's the Difference?

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The Human Experiment Self-Exterminates

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Globalization and Decentralized Cataclysm

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The Social Medium Space for People

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Do Fact Checkers Really Need Facts?

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

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Techno Optimism Can Make You a Part of the Problem

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The US Military Is So Powerful, but the Us. Government Is Not.

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We Want a New Attractor

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Could Block Chain Be Used to Solve Corruption?

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Could We Use That Technology to Improve Education?

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Are You Trying to Appeal to the Lower Reward Circuit?

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Can We Rethink Economics From Scraps?

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The Future of Education

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What if All Government Spending Was on a Block Chain?

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What if the Block Chain Process Was Uncorruptible?

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Is There a Process to Vote?

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How Do We Get From Where We Are to Where We Need to Be?

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The Need for a New Cultural Enlightenment

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The Ultimate Depository the Power Must Be the People

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Is There a Responsibility to Be Educated About the Issue?

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Is There a Cultural Enlightenment Layer?

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How to Organize the Next Model of Civilization?

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I Think It's Time to Redirect the Technology and the Decision Making Process

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The Consice Project - The Future of Education in an Open Society

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Social Media and the Emergence of Order

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How Technology Can Be Consciously Employed

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How Can We Be in Service of This Not Happeningd?

02:00:48 • 2min

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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.

We also invite you to join Daniel and Tristan at our Podcast Club! It will be on Friday, July 9th from 2-3:30pm PDT / 5-6:30pm EDT. Check here for details.

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