The first DarkHorse podcast with Daniel Schmachtenberger.
From his website: "Daniel Schmachtenberger’s central interest is long term civilization design: developing better collective capacities for sense-making and meaning-making, to inform higher quality choice-making…towards a world commensurate with our higher values and potentials."

Find Daniel at: http://civilizationemerging.com/
Find Daniel on the Neurohacker Collective: https://neurohacker.com/people/daniel...

Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music.

Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome
02:22 Homeschooling
03:54 What is it like to be an independent thinker
12:41 Collective action problem
15:06 Is there hope given all the catastrophic risk?
19:13 Failed ancient civilizations
22:41 The bomb, "twin nuclei problem", and dangerous tech
27:23 Mistake theory Vs conflict theory
33:50 AI drone weapons
36:43 The senescence of civilization
37:51 Social media is a democracy killer
41:54 Reward circuits and asymmetric power of big corp over the individuals
46:15 Casual sex Vs committed relationship
51:14 Hobbesian view and dialectic of progress
52:54 Group and lineage selection
55:17 Parasitic human behaviour and force transparency
57:51 We live in a sea of bullsh*t
59:43 Markets and manufactured demand
01:05:19 Markets, states, and the people
01:10:10 Civilizations fail to oppression or chaos
01:13:38 Corruption and powerful actors
01:15:45 Conspiracy is the emergent property of the incentive dynamics
01:17:01 Public choice theory
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publi...
01:18:30 Voting is a failure mode
01:23:21 Fixing democracy
01:25:31 Trade offs - fastest and bluest car
01:34:00 Trade off agreements on indefinite long timescales
01:36:55 Markets and incentives
01:39:26 Government funding Vs venture capital
01:43:31 Innovation under duress
01:46:42 What is the basis of warranted trust?
01:47:39 Fact checkers
01:51:01 First, second, and third person epistemics
01:54:53 Long term synthesis
01:57:36 What to optimize for... The thing that is worth optimizing for is not measurable
02:02:37 Superintelligent AI or something else
02:05:21 George Washington wisdom - Comprehensive education of the people, then post WW2 restructuring
02:09:21 Maintain and progress
02:12:12 A government that works
02:15:25 Left and Right, virtuous cycle
02:18:31 Education in an automated world
02:21:23 Wealth inequality
02:24:31 Predictable responses of people
02:26:54 Issues of first principle thinking people
02:30:48 Being confronted with conflicting information, such as lab leak and flat earth
02:39:26 Failure modes of reasoning and disagreeing with consensus
02:45:11 Black box of scientific method
02:48:14 Blockchain science
02:49:55 Sustainability of systems and reversibility
02:57:27 Conservatives and conservation
03:02:11 Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
03:05:11 Are we f**ked?
03:08:52 Grateful for Evergreen
03:10:12 Wrap up