Some Key Ideas
Avoiding/Addressing Existential and Catastrophic Risks
- The Metacrisis → Podcast - Green Pill with Daniel Schmachtenberger
- Useful to look at all our current biggest issues in a holistic way
- trying to solve one problem might make the other ones worse
- we can find the common “generator functions” (root causes) of our crises and try to solve for those
- coordination failures - multipolar traps (Moloch)
- arms races for AI, biotech, exponential tech
- Tragedy of the Commons
- perverse business incentives to skip careful risk assessments
- ”privatize gains socialize losses”
- coordination failures - multipolar traps (Moloch)
- two high-risk attractors
- Increasing Catastrophes & Breakdown
- Dystopic Control Structures
- Third Attractor as something that allows us to avoid other attractors
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what’s worth optimizing for is not definable
- Useful to look at all our current biggest issues in a holistic way
- Technology Is Not Values Neutral
- Collective sense-making and choice-making
- both-and thinking
- Think about the people your message doesn’t appeal to, how can you include them and their blowback?
- creating a higher order synthesis of different perspectives
- addiction is a signal of a less healthy and sovereign society
- thinking about success metrics
- Compersion may be the feature of individuals in a healthy society
- what we call human nature is mostly human conditioning
- our genetics selected for memetics
Living
- Self as a separate thing is a misnomer
”What am I without the Sun? Without the electromagnetic field? Without the Higgs boson? Without plants, algae, biosphere, or ozone layer? I don’t exist. Me as a separate thing is actually a misnomer. It doesn’t even exist.”
- living a Meaningful Life
- being
- doing
- becoming
- Sovereignty
- dealing with the hopelessness of our complex situation
- emotions remind us of whats important to us
- post tragic personal dialectic both-and thinking
- if you’re not outraged you’re not paying attention
- if you’re not overwhelmed by the beauty of life you’re not paying attention
- the outrage comes from the care for the beauty and wanting to preserve it
- if I’m always outraged I’m not connected to the beauty and unable to honor it
- how can we be with the beauty of life while working to try to preserve this beauty for future generations?
Podcast Appearances
- Podcast - Green Pill with Daniel Schmachtenberger
- Podcast - Nate Hagens The Great Simplification with Daniel Schmachtenberger
- Podcast - Daniel Schmachtemberger on Jim Rutt Show
- Podcast - Daniel Schmachtemberger on The Portal with Eric Weinstein
- Podcast - War On SenseMaking - Daniel Schmachtenberger
- Podcast - Forrest Landry and Daniel Schmachtenberger on Neurohacker Collective
- Podcast - Perspectives with Daniel Schmachtenberger
- Podcast - Daniel Schmachtemberger on Lex Fridman