Daniel Schmachtenberger on Exponential Technology, Transitionary Systems, and Game B

Daniel Schmachtenberger joins Erik on this episode. He is a civilization designer interested in social architecture.
They discuss:
- The unsustainability of economic growth.
- Why what’s best for the long-term is often also best for others.
- Asymmetries in markets and why markets are not actually self-correcting.
- What a healthy version of social media might look like.
- What Daniel means when he says “humans are not evolutionarily precedented creatures” and what the implications of that are.
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[@JonathanDavisKookaburra]

DS lists 4 primary categories of risk (along with many others) that are converging to create the metacrisis. AI risk, nuclear risk, biotech risk, environmental destruction. We have to solve all of these at once and this feels intractable. However when DS points out that there are only really 3 things that need to be removed from all systems and all of the biggest challenges we are facing will dissolve. Remove perverse economic incentive. Remove all externalising of harm while internalising benefit. Remove multipolar traps aka, tragedy of the commons aka race to the bottom dynamics. Then at the deepest level, the psychological driver creating all of these root causes (aka generator functions) is the problem of the 'emissary' half of our brain thinking it is the 'master', as described by Iain Mcgilchrist. The process of helping the left hemisphere mode to loosen it's dogmatic grip on the idea that the philosophy of science is the be-all-and-end-all is the core of healing the problem of the emissary thinking it is ruling the kingdom, which is the absolute core of the metacrisis. Understanding that there is reality beyond what can be measured and repeated gets the left brain to respect for the potential wisdom of the right hemisphere mode of awareness.

[@Rhimeson]

Host word count: 11 Schmactenberger: 11,000,0000

[@paulchristin]

When was this recorded?

[@Philo_sophia_YT]

November 08, 2019

[@rayhetherington7989]

Bless you, YAHWEH 🙏

[@andybaldman]

What a weird intersection. I've been listening to The Cognitive Revolution for a year, but been a fan of Dan for many years. Even though this is old, what a strange thing to find in my feed.