DarkHorse Podcast with Daniel Schmachtenberger & Bret Weinstein

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-schmachtenberger 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/Public_choice 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