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Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction | Lex Fridman Podcast #191

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Daniel Schmachtenberger is a philosopher and founding member of The Consilience Project. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Ground News: https://ground.news/lex - NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/lex to get free product tour - Four Sigmatic: https://foursigmatic.com/lex and use code LexPod to get up to 60% off - Magic Spoon: https://magicspoon.com/lex and use code LEX to get $5 off - BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off EPISODE LINKS: Daniel's Website: https://civilizationemerging.com/ The Consilience Project: https://consilienceproject.org/ PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:31 - Aliens and UFOs 20:15 - Collective intelligence of human civilization 28:12 - Consciousness 39:33 - How much computation does the human brain perform? 43:12 - Humans vs ants 50:30 - Humans are apex predators 57:34 - Girard's Mimetic Theory of Desire 1:17:31 - We can never completely understand reality 1:20:54 - Self-terminating systems 1:31:18 - Catastrophic risk 2:01:30 - Adding more love to the world 2:28:55 - How to build a better world 2:46:07 - Meaning of life 2:53:49 - Death 2:59:29 - The role of government in society 3:16:54 - Exponential growth of technology 4:02:35 - Lessons from my father 4:08:11 - Even suffering is filled with beauty SOCIAL: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman

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A scientist at Stanford reportedly analyzed material recovered from Area 51, suggesting the existence of a nanotech alloy, indicating advanced technology beyond current human capabilities.', 'Speculation on non-inertial movement and disappearance of alien craft. Discussion on the non-inertial movement and disappearance of alien craft, challenging conventional understanding of physics and technology.', 'Exploration of communicating through gravitational waves and wormholes. Consideration of using gravitational waves and wormholes for interstellar communication, suggesting a potential method for extraterrestrial civilizations to communicate.', 'Contemplation of potential extraterrestrial life forms and their implications. Consideration of the potential existence of extraterrestrial life forms, raising questions about their similarities or differences to human life and the philosophical implications of such discoveries.', "Discussion on the existential threat posed by incompatible self-replicating systems. Exploration of the potential threat posed by incompatible self-replicating systems, highlighting the risks of introducing alien life forms to Earth's biosphere."]}, {'end': 2572.014, 'start': 1216.195, 'title': 'Consciousness and social connection', 'summary': "Explores the relationship between consciousness and social connection, discussing the evolution of human consciousness, the co-evolution of first-person and third-person domains, and the unknowns in understanding the human brain's computational power and consciousness.", 'duration': 1355.819, 'highlights': ['The chapter discusses the evolution of human consciousness, emphasizing the co-evolution of first-person and third-person domains, and the significant role of social connection in shaping advanced neural networks. Evolution of human consciousness, co-evolution of first-person and third-person domains, role of social connection in shaping advanced neural networks', "The speaker shares insights on the unknowns in understanding the human brain's computational power, including the considerations of glial cells, embodied cognition, and quantum computation, emphasizing the vastness of the unknown unknown set. Unknowns in understanding human brain's computational power, considerations of glial cells, embodied cognition, quantum computation", "The conversation delves into the computational power of the human brain, highlighting its efficiency by comparing it to state-of-the-art computers and emphasizing the significant role of synaptic firings and other cellular processes. 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The speaker expresses the paradoxical nature of being unable to predict the behavior of large organisms based on simple rules, highlighting the beauty and sadness in the underlying simplicity of complex systems.', 'Humans exhibit uniqueness in their response to stimuli, unlike termites, indicating a higher level of individuality and complexity. A comparison is drawn between human and termite behavior, emphasizing the unique and complex nature of human responses to stimuli compared to termites.', 'The discussion of mimetic theory and imitation in human civilization prompts exploration into the fundamental property of human behavior and learning through observation. The chapter delves into the concept of mimetic theory and its role in human civilization, highlighting the fundamental nature of imitation and learning through observation in shaping human behavior.']}], 'duration': 3126.526, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE40743.jpg', 'highlights': ['The insatiable striving to lessen suffering in the world through human connections.', 'The magic of strangers coming together to share ideas, become friends, and create something greater than the sum of their parts.', 'Experiencing the magic of new friendships and conversations that leave a lasting impact and appreciation for life.', 'Alien perspective on human civilization, potential threats to intergalactic survival, and the likelihood of intelligent alien civilizations.', 'Historical events such as the burning of Alexandria and the cyclical nature of technological progress and destruction throughout human history.', 'Exploration 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complex systems.', 'Humans exhibit uniqueness in their response to stimuli, unlike termites, indicating a higher level of individuality and complexity.', 'The discussion of mimetic theory and imitation in human civilization prompts exploration into the fundamental property of human behavior and learning through observation.']}, {'end': 4665.741, 'segs': [{'end': 3292.095, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3267.266, 'weight': 7, 'content': [{'end': 3275.61, 'text': "so then, every aspect towards any organism in any environment, we're incredibly good at becoming apex predators.", 'start': 3267.266, 'duration': 8.344}, {'end': 3279.371, 'text': 'Yes And nothing else can do that kind of thing.', 'start': 3275.87, 'duration': 3.501}, {'end': 3283.053, 'text': 'There is no other apex predator that..', 'start': 3279.512, 'duration': 3.541}, {'end': 3287.934, 'text': "See, the other apex predator is only getting better at being a predator through evolutionary process that's super slow.", 'start': 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move and try to get away.', 'start': 3446.952, 'duration': 5.181}, {'end': 3456.714, 'text': "We'll go back to the Gerard thing, then we'll come back here.", 'start': 3454.114, 'duration': 2.6}, {'end': 3458.875, 'text': 'Why are we neotenous??', 'start': 3457.574, 'duration': 1.301}], 'summary': 'Predators are defined as animals with capacity for violence. neoteny is discussed.', 'duration': 27.646, 'max_score': 3431.229, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE3431229.jpg'}, {'end': 3580.447, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3544.005, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 3546.888, 'text': "I have problems with computer metaphors for biology, but I'll use this one here.", 'start': 3544.005, 'duration': 2.883}, {'end': 3553.115, 'text': 'That we have not had hardware changes.', 'start': 3549.03, 'duration': 4.085}, {'end': 3557.546, 'text': 'since the beginning of Sapiens, but our world is really, really different.', 'start': 3554.184, 'duration': 3.362}, {'end': 3560.428, 'text': "And that's all changes in software right?", 'start': 3558.247, 'duration': 2.181}, {'end': 3569.594, 'text': "Changes in on the same fundamental genetic substrate what we're doing with these brains and minds and bodies and social groups and like that.", 'start': 3560.468, 'duration': 9.126}, {'end': 3580.447, 'text': 'And so now Gerard specifically was looking at when we watch other people talking.', 'start': 3570.615, 'duration': 9.832}], 'summary': 'Humans have undergone no hardware changes since sapiens, but significant software changes, including in genetics, brains, minds, bodies, and social groups.', 'duration': 36.442, 'max_score': 3544.005, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE3544005.jpg'}, {'end': 4025.575, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3998.424, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 4003.565, 'text': 'But I can also say statistically that most people born into the ghetto show up differently than most people born into the Hamptons.', 'start': 3998.424, 'duration': 5.141}, {'end': 4011.427, 'text': 'And so, unless you want to argue that, and have you take your child from the Hamptons and put them in the ghetto, then like, come on,', 'start': 4004.345, 'duration': 7.082}, {'end': 4012.467, 'text': 'be realistic about this thing.', 'start': 4011.427, 'duration': 1.04}, {'end': 4014.968, 'text': 'So how do we make?', 'start': 4012.927, 'duration': 2.041}, {'end': 4019.94, 'text': "we don't want social systems that make weak, dependent individuals, right?", 'start': 4014.968, 'duration': 4.972}, {'end': 4021.063, 'text': 'The welfare argument.', 'start': 4020.241, 'duration': 0.822}, {'end': 4025.575, 'text': "but we also don't want no social system that supports individuals to do better.", 'start': 4021.063, 'duration': 4.512}], 'summary': "Statistically, upbringing affects individuals' outcomes. balance social support without fostering dependency.", 'duration': 27.151, 'max_score': 3998.424, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE3998424.jpg'}, {'end': 4071.467, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4042.473, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 4046.956, 'text': 'Can we make it to where we have holes that are conditioning increased agency and sovereignty?', 'start': 4042.473, 'duration': 4.483}, {'end': 4048.077, 'text': 'right?. That would be the synthesis.', 'start': 4046.956, 'duration': 1.121}, {'end': 4055.943, 'text': "So the thing that I'm coming to here is if people have that as a frame and sometimes it's not just thesis and antithesis it's like eight different views.", 'start': 4048.257, 'duration': 7.686}, {'end': 4058.984, 'text': 'Right? Can I steel man each view?', 'start': 4056.403, 'duration': 2.581}, {'end': 4062.145, 'text': 'This is not just can I take the perspective, but am I seeking them?', 'start': 4059.444, 'duration': 2.701}, {'end': 4065.405, 'text': "Am I actively trying to inhabit other people's perspective?", 'start': 4062.185, 'duration': 3.22}, {'end': 4071.467, 'text': 'Then can I really try to centralize it and argue the best points of it,', 'start': 4066.446, 'duration': 5.021}], 'summary': 'Seeking to centralize and argue diverse perspectives for increased agency and sovereignty.', 'duration': 28.994, 'max_score': 4042.473, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE4042473.jpg'}, {'end': 4201.184, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4176.304, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 4181.706, 'text': "And there's a humility you have to have, which is my most rigorous attempt is still not it.", 'start': 4176.304, 'duration': 5.402}, {'end': 4186.609, 'text': "My most rigorous attempt, mine, to know what it's like to be a woman is still not it.", 'start': 4182.446, 'duration': 4.163}, {'end': 4189.893, 'text': 'I have no question that if I was actually a woman, it would be different than my best guesses.', 'start': 4186.85, 'duration': 3.043}, {'end': 4193.617, 'text': "I have no question if I was actually black, it'd be different than my best guesses.", 'start': 4190.434, 'duration': 3.183}, {'end': 4201.184, 'text': "So there's a humility in that which keeps me listening because I don't think that I know fully, but I want to, and I'm going to keep trying better to.", 'start': 4194.498, 'duration': 6.686}], 'summary': "Striving for empathy and understanding by acknowledging limitations in experiencing others' perspectives.", 'duration': 24.88, 'max_score': 4176.304, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE4176304.jpg'}, {'end': 4265.703, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4238.859, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 4245.644, 'text': "I think if I'm overwhelmed with my own pain, I can't empathize that much.", 'start': 4238.859, 'duration': 6.785}, {'end': 4248.94, 'text': "because I don't have the bandwidth, I don't have the capacity.", 'start': 4246.638, 'duration': 2.302}, {'end': 4254.825, 'text': "If I don't feel like I can do something about a particular problem in the world, it's hard to feel it because it's just too devastating.", 'start': 4249.641, 'duration': 5.184}, {'end': 4260.86, 'text': "And so a lot of people go numb and even go nihilistic because they just don't feel the agency.", 'start': 4255.956, 'duration': 4.904}, {'end': 4265.703, 'text': 'So, as I actually become more empowered as an individual and have more sense of agency,', 'start': 4261.44, 'duration': 4.263}], 'summary': 'Empowerment leads to increased capacity for empathy and action.', 'duration': 26.844, 'max_score': 4238.859, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE4238859.jpg'}], 'start': 3168.53, 'title': 'Human evolution and social theories', 'summary': 'Delves into humans surpassing apex predators through neoteny and tool-making abilities, explores mimetic theory of desire, dialectic synthesis, rigorous empathy, and joe rogan theory of desire, emphasizing their impact on personal development, conflict resolution, and environmental influence.', 'chapters': [{'end': 3569.594, 'start': 3168.53, 'title': 'Humans: more than apex predators', 'summary': "Discusses how humans' neoteny and tool-making abilities have led to their unique capacity as environment-modifying creatures, surpassing even apex predators, and evolving into a species with god-like abilities, leading to significant environmental impact.", 'duration': 401.064, 'highlights': ["Humans' tool-making ability has allowed them to become apex predators in all environments, surpassing other apex predators. Humans' capacity to become apex predators in all environments due to their tool-making ability has led to significant environmental impact, surpassing other apex predators.", "Humans' ability to change their environments more radically than any other creature has led to the Anthropocene era, where human activity significantly alters the Earth's surface. Human activity has led to the Anthropocene era, where the Earth's surface is changing more from human activity than geological activity, showcasing humans' significant impact on the environment.", "Humans' uniqueness lies in their ability to modify their behavior and learn new skills to adapt to rapidly changing environments, due to their neoteny. Neoteny has allowed humans to have a long period of relative helplessness, enabling them to learn and adapt to rapidly changing environments, making them unique in their ability to modify behavior and learn new skills.", "Humans' unique capacity for learning and adaptation, imprinting a lot of software on how to behave, sets them apart from other species. The unique capacity for learning and adaptation in humans, imprinting a lot of software on how to behave, sets them apart from other species in their ability to modify behavior and adapt to changing environments.", "The significant impact of humans on the environment, including the ability to deplete entire ecosystems and engineer synthetic life, sets them apart as 'little gods' rather than just apex predators. Humans' ability to deplete entire ecosystems, engineer synthetic life, and behave as 'little gods' rather than just apex predators showcases their significant impact on the environment."]}, {'end': 3880.045, 'start': 3570.615, 'title': 'Mimetic theory of desire', 'summary': 'Explores the mimetic theory of desire, suggesting that individuals learn language and desires through imitation, leading to conflict, emphasizing the influence of environment on personal development and the importance of choosing positive influences.', 'duration': 309.43, 'highlights': ['Individuals learn desires through imitation, leading to conflict and group tension. The mimetic theory of desire suggests that individuals learn what to want by imitating others, leading to conflict and tension within groups.', "The influence of environment on personal development and behavior is significant. The environment significantly impacts an individual's development and behavior, as evidenced by the example of adapting to different environments such as maximum security prison or different geographical locations.", 'The importance of choosing positive influences and environments for personal development. It is crucial for individuals to choose positive influences and environments to positively predispose their development and affect those around them, emphasizing the significance of self-determination in selecting environments.']}, {'end': 4114.783, 'start': 3880.045, 'title': 'Dialectic synthesis for cognitive growth', 'summary': 'Discusses the concept of dialectical synthesis, emphasizing the importance of seeking multiple perspectives, understanding their values, and aiming for higher order truth to improve learning, problem-solving, and civic capacity.', 'duration': 234.738, 'highlights': ['The process of seeking dialectical synthesis can improve learning, problem-solving, communication, and civic capacity, contributing to making the world better.', 'The concept of dialectical synthesis involves seeking multiple perspectives, understanding their values, and aiming for a higher order truth that integrates differing viewpoints.', 'Understanding and empathizing with different perspectives can lead to finding solutions that work at a higher order of complexity and prevent conflicts.', 'The synthesis involves creating conditions where individuals can contribute to a better whole while also supporting increased agency and sovereignty.', 'The cognitive disposition of seeking dialectical synthesis is highlighted as a crucial aspect for cognitive growth and perspective-seeking.']}, {'end': 4431.161, 'start': 4114.803, 'title': 'Rigorous empathy and conflict theory', 'summary': 'Discusses the concept of rigorous empathy, emphasizing the importance of understanding and embodying different worldviews to create a higher order synthesis, and the role of shared pathos in creating bonding and intimacy. it also explores the idea of conflict theory and the memetic nature of conflicts, leading to violence and scapegoating as a mechanism to minimize conflict energy.', 'duration': 316.358, 'highlights': ['The importance of rigorous empathy and shared pathos in creating bonding and intimacy. The speaker emphasizes the significance of rigorous empathy, where understanding and embodying different worldviews leads to a higher order synthesis. Shared pathos is discussed as a factor in creating a sense of shared bonding and intimacy.', 'The concept of conflict theory and the memetic nature of conflicts. The chapter delves into conflict theory, explaining how conflicts arise from fundamental desires and become memetic, leading to polarizations such as Palestinian vs. Israeli, communist vs. capitalist, and left vs. right politically.', 'The role of violence and scapegoating as a mechanism to minimize conflict energy. The discussion highlights how conflicts can escalate to the point where violence and scapegoating are used as mechanisms to minimize conflict energy, with scapegoating being described as a means to calm down the conflict energy in the system.']}, {'end': 4665.741, 'start': 4431.181, 'title': 'The joe rogan theory of desire', 'summary': 'Discusses how traditional aboriginal social technologies and the joe rogan theory of desire provide alternative perspectives on conflict resolution and the limitations of explanatory models of reality.', 'duration': 234.56, 'highlights': ['The traditional Aboriginal social technology involves resolving conflicts through dance and positive bonding, without the need for scapegoating, providing a contrasting view to modern theories of conflict resolution.', 'The chapter questions the explanatory power of models of reality and emphasizes the humility of not having a perfect model of reality, highlighting the limitations of explanatory models.', 'The discussion delves into the inherent limitations of modeling reality, using the example of cellular automata to illustrate the impossibility of predicting certain aspects of the world, showcasing the complexity and unpredictability of reality.', 'The speaker expresses the belief that the mess and unpredictability of reality are not flaws but essential for beauty, challenging the idea of striving for order and cleanliness as the only path to beauty.']}], 'duration': 1497.211, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE3168530.jpg', 'highlights': ["Humans' tool-making ability has allowed them to become apex predators in all environments, surpassing other apex predators.", 'Neoteny has allowed humans to have a long period of relative helplessness, enabling them to learn and adapt to rapidly changing environments, making them unique in their ability to modify behavior and learn new skills.', "The significant impact of humans on the environment, including the ability to deplete entire ecosystems and engineer synthetic life, sets them apart as 'little gods' rather than just apex predators.", 'Individuals learn desires through imitation, leading to conflict and group tension.', 'The concept of dialectical synthesis involves seeking multiple perspectives, understanding their values, and aiming for a higher order truth that integrates differing viewpoints.', 'The importance of rigorous empathy and shared pathos in creating bonding and intimacy.', 'The traditional Aboriginal social technology involves resolving conflicts through dance and positive bonding, without the need for scapegoating, providing a contrasting view to modern theories of conflict resolution.', 'The discussion delves into the inherent limitations of modeling reality, using the example of cellular automata to illustrate the impossibility of predicting certain aspects of the world, showcasing the complexity and unpredictability of reality.']}, {'end': 5382.885, 'segs': [{'end': 4863.4, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4837.862, 'weight': 7, 'content': [{'end': 4845.087, 'text': "And then there's mitochondrial DNA and then viruses affected and fuck, right? So it's like we get overexcited when we think we found the thing.", 'start': 4837.862, 'duration': 7.225}, {'end': 4852.151, 'text': "So on Facebook, you know how you can list your relationship as complicated? It should actually say it's, it's complex.", 'start': 4846.727, 'duration': 5.424}, {'end': 4854.373, 'text': "That's the more accurate description.", 'start': 4852.852, 'duration': 1.521}, {'end': 4858.957, 'text': 'You, uh, self-terminating is a really interesting idea that you talk about quite a bit.', 'start': 4854.894, 'duration': 4.063}, {'end': 4863.4, 'text': 'First of all, what is a self-terminating system?', 'start': 4861.319, 'duration': 2.081}], 'summary': 'Discussion on complexities of mitochondrial dna and viruses, self-terminating systems.', 'duration': 25.538, 'max_score': 4837.862, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE4837862.jpg'}, {'end': 4980.237, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 4949.997, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 4957.481, 'text': 'I might get an exponential curve and then hit a wall and then just collapse the exponential curve rather than do an S curve or some other kind of thing.', 'start': 4949.997, 'duration': 7.484}, {'end': 4968.664, 'text': 'So self-terminating system is any system that depends upon a substrate system that is debasing its own substrate,', 'start': 4959.922, 'duration': 8.742}, {'end': 4971.067, 'text': 'that is debasing what it depends upon.', 'start': 4968.664, 'duration': 2.403}, {'end': 4980.237, 'text': "so you're right that, uh, if you look at empires, they rise and fall throughout human history, but but not this time, bro,", 'start': 4971.067, 'duration': 9.17}], 'summary': 'The speaker discusses the concept of a self-terminating system and highlights the historical rise and fall of empires.', 'duration': 30.24, 'max_score': 4949.997, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE4949997.jpg'}, {'end': 5058.544, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5013.721, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 5019.983, 'text': 'We keep coming up with clever ways of avoiding disaster, of avoiding collapse, of constructing.', 'start': 5013.721, 'duration': 6.262}, {'end': 5023.825, 'text': 'This is where technological innovation, this is where growth comes in,', 'start': 5020.003, 'duration': 3.822}, {'end': 5028.146, 'text': 'coming up with different ways to improve productivity and the way society functions,', 'start': 5023.825, 'duration': 4.321}, {'end': 5032.008, 'text': 'such that we consume less resources or get a lot more from the resources we have.', 'start': 5028.146, 'duration': 3.862}, {'end': 5043.598, 'text': "So there's some sense in which human ingenuity is a source for optimism about the future of this particular system.", 'start': 5033.815, 'duration': 9.783}, {'end': 5050.881, 'text': "that may not be self-terminating if there's more innovation than there is consumption.", 'start': 5043.598, 'duration': 7.283}, {'end': 5057.283, 'text': 'So overconsumption of resources is just one way a thing can self-terminate.', 'start': 5053.002, 'duration': 4.281}, {'end': 5058.544, 'text': "We're just kind of starting here.", 'start': 5057.323, 'duration': 1.221}], 'summary': 'Human ingenuity can drive innovation to reduce resource consumption and prevent self-termination of the system.', 'duration': 44.823, 'max_score': 5013.721, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE5013721.jpg'}, {'end': 5181.273, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5156.512, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 5162.257, 'text': "it's like our total number of existential risks and the total probability of them is going up.", 'start': 5156.512, 'duration': 5.745}, {'end': 5167.077, 'text': 'And so I think that there are.', 'start': 5163.833, 'duration': 3.244}, {'end': 5179.19, 'text': 'we have to hold together where our positive possibilities and our risk possibilities are both increasing and then say for the positive possibilities to be realized long term,', 'start': 5167.077, 'duration': 12.113}, {'end': 5181.273, 'text': 'all of the catastrophic risks have to not happen.', 'start': 5179.19, 'duration': 2.083}], 'summary': 'Existential risks are increasing, positive possibilities need to outweigh catastrophic risks.', 'duration': 24.761, 'max_score': 5156.512, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE5156512.jpg'}, {'end': 5317.118, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5282.663, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 5291.851, 'text': "And can we then be able to actually look at the categories of extras we're aware of and see that we actually have resilience? in the presence of those not just resilience but anti fragility.", 'start': 5282.663, 'duration': 9.188}, {'end': 5301.627, 'text': 'And I would say for the optimism to be grounded, it has to actually be able to understand the risk space well and have adequate solutions for it.', 'start': 5292.893, 'duration': 8.734}, {'end': 5317.118, 'text': "So can we try to dig into some basic intuitions about the underlying sources of catastrophic failures of the system and overconsumption that's built in into self-terminating systems?", 'start': 5302.489, 'duration': 14.629}], 'summary': 'Exploring resilience, anti-fragility, risk space, and catastrophic system failures.', 'duration': 34.455, 'max_score': 5282.663, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE5282663.jpg'}], 'start': 4665.941, 'title': "Reality's sacredness and civilization self-termination", 'summary': 'Discusses the sacredness of reality, model limitations, and the distinction between complex and complicated systems. it also covers the concept of civilization self-termination, using historical examples and patterns to illustrate potential risks and the role of technological innovation.', 'chapters': [{'end': 4820.551, 'start': 4665.941, 'title': "Reality's sacredness and model limitations", 'summary': 'Discusses the sacredness of reality, the limitations of models in understanding it, and the distinction between complex and complicated systems, emphasizing that complex systems exhibit emergent behavior not predicted by the model.', 'duration': 154.61, 'highlights': ["Reality is sacred and models are never complete descriptions of real systems. The speaker interprets the commandment about having no false idols as a reverence for reality and acknowledges that models are never complete descriptions of what's happening in real systems.", 'Models are super useful, but they are never true with a capital T meaning. While models like Newtonian gravity can be super useful, they are never true with a capital T meaning, implying that they are not complete descriptions of reality.', 'Complex systems exhibit emergent behavior not predicted by the model. The distinction between complex and complicated systems is discussed, emphasizing that complex systems exhibit emergent behavior not predicted by the model, unlike complicated systems.']}, {'end': 5382.885, 'start': 4820.551, 'title': 'Civilization self-termination', 'summary': 'Discusses the concept of self-terminating systems, using historical examples and patterns to illustrate the potential for human civilizations to self-terminate due to overconsumption and other catastrophic risks, while highlighting the role of technological innovation and the need for understanding and addressing both optimistic and pessimistic perspectives.', 'duration': 562.334, 'highlights': ['Human civilizations have historically risen and fallen, demonstrating a pattern of self-termination due to factors such as overconsumption and internal institutional decay. Historical examples of civilizations like the early Egyptian empire, Inca, Maya, and Aztec demonstrate self-termination, either through external factors like war or internal issues.', 'The concept of self-terminating systems is explained as any system that depends on a substrate system debasing its own substrate, leading to potential collapse. A self-terminating system relies on resources faster than they can replicate, eventually leading to a collapse in resource availability.', 'The role of technological innovation and human ingenuity is highlighted as a source of optimism for the future of the current civilization, with the potential to mitigate overconsumption and resource depletion. Technological innovation and societal improvements can potentially address overconsumption and resource depletion, offering optimism for the future.', 'The discussion emphasizes the importance of understanding both optimistic and pessimistic perspectives, as well as the need to address underlying sources of catastrophic failures and overconsumption in self-terminating systems. The need for balanced understanding of optimistic and pessimistic perspectives, and the importance of addressing underlying causes of catastrophic failures and overconsumption in self-terminating systems.']}], 'duration': 716.944, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE4665941.jpg', 'highlights': ['The distinction between complex and complicated systems is discussed, emphasizing that complex systems exhibit emergent behavior not predicted by the model, unlike complicated systems.', 'Models are super useful, but they are never true with a capital T meaning, implying that they are not complete descriptions of reality.', "Reality is sacred and models are never complete descriptions of real systems. The speaker interprets the commandment about having no false idols as a reverence for reality and acknowledges that models are never complete descriptions of what's happening in real systems.", 'Historical examples of civilizations like the early Egyptian empire, Inca, Maya, and Aztec demonstrate self-termination, either through external factors like war or internal issues.', 'A self-terminating system relies on resources faster than they can replicate, eventually leading to a collapse in resource availability.', 'Technological innovation and societal improvements can potentially address overconsumption and resource depletion, offering optimism for the future.', 'The need for balanced understanding of optimistic and pessimistic perspectives, and the importance of addressing underlying causes of catastrophic failures and overconsumption in self-terminating systems.', 'The role of technological innovation and human ingenuity is highlighted as a source of optimism for the future of the current civilization, with the potential to mitigate overconsumption and resource depletion.']}, {'end': 6733.613, 'segs': [{'end': 5408.217, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 5382.905, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 5391.073, 'text': "Because you've also provided kind of a beautiful general approach to this, which is this dialectic synthesis, or just.", 'start': 5382.905, 'duration': 8.168}, {'end': 5399.094, 'text': 'rigorous empathy, whatever whatever word we want to put to it, that seems to be from the individual perspective,', 'start': 5392.871, 'duration': 6.223}, {'end': 5405.496, 'text': 'is one way to sort of live in the world as we try to figure out how to construct non self-terminating systems.', 'start': 5399.094, 'duration': 6.402}, {'end': 5408.217, 'text': 'So what, what are some underlying sources? Yeah.', 'start': 5406.096, 'duration': 2.121}], 'summary': 'Dialectic synthesis fosters empathy for constructing non self-terminating systems.', 'duration': 25.312, 'max_score': 5382.905, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE5382905.jpg'}, {'end': 6493.861, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6450.079, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 6453.783, 'text': 'And then how many people are doing destructive things with lower tech?', 'start': 6450.079, 'duration': 3.704}, {'end': 6457.708, 'text': "And then how many of them can get access to higher tech that they didn't have to figure out how to build?", 'start': 6453.923, 'duration': 3.785}, {'end': 6469.58, 'text': "So when I can get commercial tech and maybe I don't understand tech very well, but I understand it well enough to utilize it, not to create it,", 'start': 6459.085, 'duration': 10.495}, {'end': 6470.562, 'text': 'and I can repurpose it', 'start': 6469.58, 'duration': 0.982}, {'end': 6481.611, 'text': 'When we saw that commercial drone with a homemade thermite bomb hit the Ukrainian munitions factory and do the equivalent of an incendiary bomb level of damage.', 'start': 6471.403, 'duration': 10.208}, {'end': 6483.933, 'text': "That's just home tech.", 'start': 6482.492, 'duration': 1.441}, {'end': 6485.654, 'text': "That's just simple kind of thing.", 'start': 6484.113, 'duration': 1.541}, {'end': 6493.861, 'text': 'And so the question is not does it stay being a small percentage of the population??', 'start': 6486.455, 'duration': 7.406}], 'summary': 'Some people using lower tech can access and repurpose higher tech for destructive purposes, posing a potential threat.', 'duration': 43.782, 'max_score': 6450.079, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE6450079.jpg'}], 'start': 5382.905, 'title': 'Catastrophic risks and global fragility', 'summary': 'Provides a historical perspective on catastrophic risks and the impact of events like world war ii and covid-19, highlighting the exponential growth of gdp, fragility of global supply chains, psychological disposition towards destruction, and the race between love and destruction.', 'chapters': [{'end': 5901.059, 'start': 5382.905, 'title': 'Catastrophic risk and human history', 'summary': 'Discusses the historical perspective of catastrophic risks, the impact of world war ii, the bretton woods solution, and the exponential growth of gdp leading to planetary boundary acceleration.', 'duration': 518.154, 'highlights': ['The historical perspective of catastrophic risks is discussed, emphasizing the shift from local to global phenomena, notably after World War II. The chapter provides insight into the historical shift from local to global catastrophic risks, particularly after World War II, marking a significant change in human history.', 'The impact of the Bretton Woods solution on global trade relationships and the concept of economic interdependence is explained. The impact of the Bretton Woods solution on global trade relationships and the concept of economic interdependence is detailed, highlighting the shift towards a non-war driven global economic model.', 'The exponential growth of GDP leading to accelerated planetary boundary risks is outlined, emphasizing the unsustainable nature of exponential growth on a finite planet. The chapter explores the unsustainable nature of exponential GDP growth on a finite planet, leading to accelerated planetary boundary risks such as overconsumption and resource depletion.']}, {'end': 6157.506, 'start': 5904.622, 'title': 'Global fragility and catastrophic risk', 'summary': 'Discusses the increased fragility of interconnected global supply chains due to events like covid-19, leading to widespread impacts on agriculture, hunger issues, and the proliferation of diverse and easily producible catastrophe weapons, necessitating a reevaluation of global governance and risk management strategies.', 'duration': 252.884, 'highlights': ['The interconnectedness of global supply chains led to increased fragility, as demonstrated by the rapid and widespread impacts of COVID-19 originating in one part of China, affecting the entire world. The interconnected nature of global supply chains resulted in heightened fragility, exemplified by the swift and far-reaching consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak stemming from a single location in China.', 'Supply chain shutdowns led to crop failures and increased hunger issues in regions like northern Africa and Iran, showcasing the cascading effects of disruptions on agriculture and food security. The shutdown of supply chains resulted in crop failures and heightened hunger concerns in areas such as northern Africa and Iran, underscoring the ripple effects of disruptions on agricultural production and food security.', 'The proliferation of diverse and easily producible catastrophe weapons, including weaponized drones and bio-weapons, has led to a complex arms race, challenging traditional nuclear non-proliferation efforts. The proliferation of various readily manufacturable catastrophe weapons, encompassing weaponized drones and bio-weapons, has sparked a multifaceted arms race, posing challenges to conventional nuclear non-proliferation endeavors.', 'The decentralization of exponential technology has facilitated decentralized catastrophe weapon capacity, contributing to a world with an increasing number of disenfranchised individuals and heightened catastrophic risks. The dispersal of exponential technology has enabled decentralized catastrophe weapon capability, fostering a global environment with growing disenfranchisement and elevated catastrophic hazards.', 'The chapter emphasizes the need to reevaluate global governance and risk management strategies to address the evolving landscape of catastrophic risks posed by the interconnectedness of global supply chains and the proliferation of diverse and easily producible catastrophe weapons. The chapter underscores the necessity of reassessing global governance and risk management approaches to confront the changing panorama of catastrophic risks stemming from interconnected supply chains and the proliferation of various easily manufacturable catastrophe weapons.']}, {'end': 6493.861, 'start': 6157.506, 'title': 'Psychological disposition towards construction and destruction', 'summary': 'Explores the psychological disposition towards construction and destruction, highlighting the inverse correlation between competence and propensity for destruction, the concern for catastrophic tech, and the potential for destructive acts with lower tech.', 'duration': 336.355, 'highlights': ["The inverse correlation between competence and propensity for destruction is discussed, suggesting that individuals with greater competence may be more inclined towards destructive acts, while emphasizing the alignment of moral fortitude with competence and being good at one's job.", 'The concern for catastrophic tech is raised, stating that the psychological disposition required to build such tech may be inversely correlated with the desire to damage civilization, with the question of why there are not more instances of insane mass murder despite the availability of smart individuals who can create explosives.', 'The potential for destructive acts with lower tech is highlighted, pointing out the accessibility and repurposing of commercial tech for destructive purposes, as exemplified by the use of a commercial drone with a homemade thermite bomb to cause significant damage to a munitions factory.']}, {'end': 6733.613, 'start': 6494.021, 'title': 'The race between love and destruction', 'summary': "Discusses the race between the capacity of humans to express love towards each other and the cheapening of destructive weapons, emphasizing that love is winning despite the potential for large-scale destruction, and explores the reasons why it's easier to imagine scenarios where humanity blows itself up than to envision avoiding those scenarios completely.", 'duration': 239.592, 'highlights': ["Love's capacity to counter destructive weapons The discussion emphasizes the race between the capacity of humans to express love towards each other and the cheapening of destructive weapons, suggesting that despite the potential for large-scale destruction, love is winning.", "Difficulty in envisioning scenarios where humanity avoids self-destruction The chapter explores the reasons why it's easier to imagine scenarios where humanity blows itself up than to envision avoiding those scenarios completely, attributing it to a psychological inclination towards visualizing destruction and potential enjoyment in contemplating such scenarios."]}], 'duration': 1350.708, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE5382905.jpg', 'highlights': ['The exponential growth of GDP leading to accelerated planetary boundary risks is outlined, emphasizing the unsustainable nature of exponential growth on a finite planet.', 'The interconnectedness of global supply chains led to increased fragility, as demonstrated by the rapid and widespread impacts of COVID-19 originating in one part of China, affecting the entire world.', 'The proliferation of diverse and easily producible catastrophe weapons, including weaponized drones and bio-weapons, has led to a complex arms race, challenging traditional nuclear non-proliferation efforts.', "The inverse correlation between competence and propensity for destruction is discussed, suggesting that individuals with greater competence may be more inclined towards destructive acts, while emphasizing the alignment of moral fortitude with competence and being good at one's job.", "Love's capacity to counter destructive weapons The discussion emphasizes the race between the capacity of humans to express love towards each other and the cheapening of destructive weapons, suggesting that despite the potential for large-scale destruction, love is winning."]}, {'end': 7451.99, 'segs': [{'end': 7006.449, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 6979.974, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 6987.596, 'text': 'So it sounds like part of the part of the thing that you are thinking through in terms of a solution.', 'start': 6979.974, 'duration': 7.622}, {'end': 7001.886, 'text': 'how to create an anti-fragile, a resilient society is to make explicit, acknowledge, understand the externalities the second order, third order,', 'start': 6987.596, 'duration': 14.29}, {'end': 7003.667, 'text': 'fourth order and the order effects.', 'start': 7001.886, 'duration': 1.781}, {'end': 7006.449, 'text': 'How do we start to think about those effects?', 'start': 7004.768, 'duration': 1.681}], 'summary': 'Creating an anti-fragile society by understanding and addressing externalities and their effects.', 'duration': 26.475, 'max_score': 6979.974, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE6979974.jpg'}, {'end': 7319.561, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7288.225, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 7289.326, 'text': "I'd like to hear some of them first.", 'start': 7288.225, 'duration': 1.101}, {'end': 7303.404, 'text': 'I think the idea I would have is to be a bit more rigorous in trying to measure the amount of love you add or subtract from the world in second,', 'start': 7290.069, 'duration': 13.335}, {'end': 7305.747, 'text': 'third, fourth, fifth order effects.', 'start': 7303.404, 'duration': 2.343}, {'end': 7310.272, 'text': "It's actually, I think, especially in the world of tech, quite doable.", 'start': 7306.468, 'duration': 3.804}, {'end': 7319.561, 'text': "You know, you just might not like, you know, the shareholders may not like that kind of metric, but it's pretty easy to measure.", 'start': 7311.516, 'duration': 8.045}], 'summary': 'Measure love impact in tech with quantifiable data.', 'duration': 31.336, 'max_score': 7288.225, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE7288225.jpg'}], 'start': 6735.433, 'title': 'Catastrophic risk and social technology, tech effects on society', 'summary': 'Discusses the combinatorial possibility space and the probability of catastrophic risks, emphasizing the need for a social technology to guide and direct new physical technology. it also emphasizes the second and third order effects of technological advancements and proposes the need to measure and account for these effects in building anti-fragile and resilient societies.', 'chapters': [{'end': 6913.325, 'start': 6735.433, 'title': 'Catastrophic risk and social technology', 'summary': 'Discusses the combinatorial possibility space and the probability of catastrophic risks, emphasizing the need for a social technology to guide and direct new physical technology in order to avoid such risks.', 'duration': 177.892, 'highlights': ["There's a lot of ways I could try to put the 70 trillion cells of your body together that don't make you. There's not that many ways I can put them together that make you. Highlighting the complexity of combinatorial possibility space in creating a functioning human body.", "There's a probability space where it's easier to imagine that thing. So to say, how do we have a protopic future? We have to say, well, one criteria must be that it avoids all of the catastrophic risks. Emphasizing the importance of avoiding catastrophic risks in envisioning a protopic future.", 'Could we inventory the patterns of human behavior that give rise to them? And could we try to solve for that? Highlighting the need to understand and address the patterns of human behavior leading to catastrophic risks.']}, {'end': 7451.99, 'start': 6913.946, 'title': 'Tech effects on society', 'summary': 'Discusses the second and third order effects of technological advancements, emphasizing how tech applications can lead to unintended consequences with far-reaching impacts, such as social, environmental, and political ramifications, and proposes the need to measure and account for these effects in building anti-fragile and resilient societies.', 'duration': 538.044, 'highlights': ['The second and third order effects of technological advancements can lead to unintended consequences with far-reaching impacts, such as social, environmental, and political ramifications. The discussion highlights the wide-ranging impacts of tech applications, including climate change, oil spills, wars over oil, and political clusterfucks, emphasizing the need to recognize and take responsibility for these effects.', 'Proposes the need to measure and account for the second and third order effects in building anti-fragile and resilient societies. The chapter suggests the importance of explicitly acknowledging and understanding the externalities of tech applications, advocating for the measurement of love, happiness, and well-being in second, third, fourth, and fifth order effects to build anti-fragile and resilient societies.', "The discussion of tech applications leading to unintended negative consequences, such as Facebook's impact on democracy, highlights the powerful second order effects of technological advancements and the need to consider these effects in tech development. The example of Facebook's unintended impact on democracy illustrates how tech applications can produce significant negative consequences, emphasizing the need to account for these effects in tech development to minimize harm to society."]}], 'duration': 716.557, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE6735433.jpg', 'highlights': ['Emphasizing the importance of avoiding catastrophic risks in envisioning a protopic future.', 'Highlighting the need to understand and address the patterns of human behavior leading to catastrophic risks.', 'The discussion highlights the wide-ranging impacts of tech applications, emphasizing the need to recognize and take responsibility for these effects.', 'Proposes the need to measure and account for the second and third order effects in building anti-fragile and resilient societies.', 'The chapter suggests the importance of explicitly acknowledging and understanding the externalities of tech applications, advocating for the measurement of love, happiness, and well-being in second, third, fourth, and fifth order effects to build anti-fragile and resilient societies.', "The example of Facebook's unintended impact on democracy illustrates how tech applications can produce significant negative consequences, emphasizing the need to account for these effects in tech development to minimize harm to society."]}, {'end': 8502.67, 'segs': [{'end': 7530.119, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7502.481, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 7513.488, 'text': 'When I focus on creating, on programming, on science, I become a much deeper thinker and a kinder person to others.', 'start': 7502.481, 'duration': 11.007}, {'end': 7523.593, 'text': 'When I listen to too many, a little bit is good, but too many podcasts or videos about how our world is melting down.', 'start': 7514.469, 'duration': 9.124}, {'end': 7530.119, 'text': 'criticizing ridiculous people, the worst of the quote-unquote woke, for example.', 'start': 7525.234, 'duration': 4.885}], 'summary': 'Engaging in programming and science deepens thinking and kindness. caution against excessive negative media consumption.', 'duration': 27.638, 'max_score': 7502.481, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE7502481.jpg'}, {'end': 7872.722, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 7843.703, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 7848.006, 'text': 'the speed at which the harm happening to something in Wuhan affects the rest of the world,', 'start': 7843.703, 'duration': 4.303}, {'end': 7854.33, 'text': 'or a new technology developed somewhere affects the entire world, or an environmental issue or whatever is making it to,', 'start': 7848.006, 'duration': 6.324}, {'end': 7859.473, 'text': 'where we either actually all get, not as a spiritual idea, just even as physics, right?', 'start': 7854.33, 'duration': 5.143}, {'end': 7866.138, 'text': 'We all get the interconnectedness of everything and that we either all consider that and see how to make it through more effectively together.', 'start': 7859.534, 'duration': 6.604}, {'end': 7872.722, 'text': 'or failures anywhere end up becoming decreased quality of life and failures and increased risk everywhere.', 'start': 7867.078, 'duration': 5.644}], 'summary': 'Interconnectedness impacts global outcomes in technology, environment, and quality of life.', 'duration': 29.019, 'max_score': 7843.703, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE7843703.jpg'}, {'end': 8134.508, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8100.888, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 8104.39, 'text': 'They become irrational, specifically those two things, rivalrous and violent and irrational.', 'start': 8100.888, 'duration': 3.502}, {'end': 8109.894, 'text': 'And so in order to minimize the total amount of violence and have some good decisions, they need ruled somehow.', 'start': 8105.071, 'duration': 4.823}, {'end': 8115.959, 'text': "And that not getting that is some kind of naive utopianism that doesn't understand human nature yet.", 'start': 8110.555, 'duration': 5.404}, {'end': 8119.001, 'text': 'This gets back to like mimesis of desire as an inexorable thing.', 'start': 8115.999, 'duration': 3.002}, {'end': 8134.508, 'text': 'I think the idea of the masses is actually a kind of propaganda that is useful for the classes that control to popularize the idea that most people are too violent,', 'start': 8120.182, 'duration': 14.326}], 'summary': 'To minimize violence and make good decisions, ruling is necessary due to irrational and violent behavior.', 'duration': 33.62, 'max_score': 8100.888, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE8100888.jpg'}], 'start': 7452.211, 'title': 'Impact of content on growth and society', 'summary': 'Explores how content affects personal growth and societal well-being, emphasizing the need to optimize systems for promoting positivity and reducing negativity, leading to potential benefits for individuals and platforms. it also delves into the impact of global interconnectedness on security, the importance of empathy and interconnectedness, and how conditioning factors influence human behavior and societal outcomes.', 'chapters': [{'end': 7683.055, 'start': 7452.211, 'title': 'Optimizing personal growth and society', 'summary': 'Discusses how the content we consume can impact personal growth, behavior, and societal well-being, proposing the optimization of systems to promote positivity and reduce negativity, with potential benefits for both individuals and platforms.', 'duration': 230.844, 'highlights': ['The impact of content consumption on personal growth and behavior Content such as podcasts and videos can influence personal growth, with a focus on creating, programming, and science leading to deeper thinking and kindness, while excessive exposure to negative content can lead to a decline in behavior.', 'Optimizing systems for positivity and societal well-being The suggestion to optimize systems, like the YouTube algorithm and military strategy, to promote positivity and reduce negativity, aiming to enhance personal growth and societal resilience while potentially benefiting businesses and humanity.', 'The externalities of decisions on love and hate Emphasizes the externalities of decisions, illustrating how choices can lead to either love or hate, highlighting the potential impact on future generations and societal well-being, thereby underscoring the importance of considering the love quotient in decision-making.']}, {'end': 7954.804, 'start': 7683.495, 'title': 'Global interconnectedness and empathy', 'summary': 'Discusses the impact of global interconnectedness on security, the escalation of conflicts due to failure to obliterate adversaries, and the importance of empathy and interconnectedness in the era of globalization and exponential technology.', 'duration': 271.309, 'highlights': ['The impact of global interconnectedness on security and conflicts escalation The failure to obliterate adversaries leads to increased enmity and potential reverse engineering of technologies, escalating conflicts in various fronts such as kinetic war, information war, narrative war, and economic war.', 'The importance of empathy and interconnectedness in the era of globalization The interconnectedness of the world due to globalization and exponential technology necessitates a shift towards considering the interconnectedness of everything and working together effectively to avoid decreased quality of life and increased risk everywhere.', "Role of technology in fostering empathy and connectedness The discussion on social networks and their potential to enable increased empathy for people outside of one's ideological spectrum, indicating a potential for individuals to feel more connected in the era of technological advancement."]}, {'end': 8183.445, 'start': 7954.804, 'title': 'Cultural outliers and conditioning', 'summary': 'Discusses how cultural outliers exhibit extreme behaviors in terms of violence and compassion, highlighting the impact of conditioning factors on human behavior and the potential for societal conditioning to influence outcomes.', 'duration': 228.641, 'highlights': ['Cultural outliers showcase extreme behaviors in terms of violence and compassion, influenced by conditioning factors and societal environments. The chapter examines cultural outliers, such as the nonviolent Janes and Buddhists, and contrasts them with groups like child soldiers in Liberia and Darfur, to illustrate the impact of conditioning factors on human behavior.', 'The conditioning environment significantly shapes human behavior and societal outcomes, as demonstrated by the varying educational and developmental environments of different schools. The comparison between the outcomes of students from Exeter Academy and inner-city schools underscores the influence of conditioning factors on shaping societal outcomes and the potential for societal conditioning to drive significant changes in behavior and achievement.', "The notion of 'the masses' as inherently violent and irrational is challenged, suggesting that societal conditioning plays a crucial role in shaping behavior and choices. The discussion challenges the idea of 'the masses' as inherently violent and irrational, proposing that societal conditioning and environmental factors significantly influence behavior and choices, thereby questioning the popularized notion of the masses as inherently undisciplined and irrational."]}, {'end': 8502.67, 'start': 8185.007, 'title': 'Conditioning social virtues and power dynamics', 'summary': 'Discusses the potential for conditioning social virtues such as empathy and rationality, the impact on participatory governance, and the need to address power dynamics, with insights into human nature and the possibility of creating systems resilient to asymmetries of power.', 'duration': 317.663, 'highlights': ['The chapter explores the conditioning of social virtues like empathy and rationality, and their potential impact on participatory governance and society, emphasizing the need to address power dynamics. conditioning of social virtues, impact on participatory governance, addressing power dynamics', 'Insights into human nature and the potential for conditioning power dynamics are discussed, with a comparison to the influence of Buddhist society, emphasizing the need to understand and address power impulses. insights into human nature, conditioning power dynamics, comparison to Buddhist society', 'The discussion touches on the potential for creating systems resilient to asymmetries of power, emphasizing the need for proper conditioning, education, and incentives to discourage the seeking and construction of asymmetric power systems. creating resilient systems, proper conditioning and incentives, discouraging asymmetric power systems']}], 'duration': 1050.459, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE7452211.jpg', 'highlights': ['Optimizing systems for positivity and societal well-being, aiming to enhance personal growth and societal resilience while potentially benefiting businesses and humanity.', 'The interconnectedness of the world due to globalization and exponential technology necessitates a shift towards considering the interconnectedness of everything and working together effectively to avoid decreased quality of life and increased risk everywhere.', 'The comparison between the outcomes of students from Exeter Academy and inner-city schools underscores the influence of conditioning factors on shaping societal outcomes and the potential for societal conditioning to drive significant changes in behavior and achievement.', "The discussion challenges the idea of 'the masses' as inherently violent and irrational, proposing that societal conditioning and environmental factors significantly influence behavior and choices, thereby questioning the popularized notion of the masses as inherently undisciplined and irrational."]}, {'end': 9486.438, 'segs': [{'end': 8566.617, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8536.433, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 8539.716, 'text': 'Happiness is actually hard for philosophers to define,', 'start': 8536.433, 'duration': 3.283}, {'end': 8546.061, 'text': "because some people find that there's certain kinds of overcoming suffering that are necessary for happiness.", 'start': 8539.716, 'duration': 6.345}, {'end': 8549.624, 'text': "There's happiness that feels more like contentment and happiness that feels more like passion.", 'start': 8546.081, 'duration': 3.543}, {'end': 8552.686, 'text': 'Is passion the source of all suffering or the source of all creativity?', 'start': 8550.124, 'duration': 2.562}, {'end': 8560.753, 'text': "There's deep stuff and it's mostly first person, not measurable third person stuff, even if maybe it corresponds to third person stuff to some degree.", 'start': 8552.866, 'duration': 7.887}, {'end': 8562.674, 'text': 'But we also see examples of some.', 'start': 8560.793, 'duration': 1.881}, {'end': 8566.617, 'text': 'of our favorite examples is people who are in the worst environments who end up finding happiness right?', 'start': 8562.674, 'duration': 3.943}], 'summary': 'Defining happiness is challenging; it encompasses overcoming suffering, contentment, passion, and examples of finding happiness in adverse environments.', 'duration': 30.184, 'max_score': 8536.433, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE8536433.jpg'}, {'end': 8928.848, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8893.783, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 8894.904, 'text': "It's all very superficial.", 'start': 8893.783, 'duration': 1.121}, {'end': 8901.847, 'text': "not include animals or the rest of life, have a very shallow total amount of it, but I'm optimizing the number.", 'start': 8895.644, 'duration': 6.203}, {'end': 8903.848, 'text': 'And if I get some credit for the number.', 'start': 8901.867, 'duration': 1.981}, {'end': 8907.049, 'text': "And this is when I said the model of reality isn't reality.", 'start': 8904.828, 'duration': 2.221}, {'end': 8912.251, 'text': "When you make a set of metrics, say we're going to optimize for this,", 'start': 8909.11, 'duration': 3.141}, {'end': 8916.793, 'text': 'whatever reality is that is not included in those metrics can be the areas where harm occurs,', 'start': 8912.251, 'duration': 4.542}, {'end': 8928.848, 'text': 'which is why I would say that wisdom is something like the discernment that leads to right choices,', 'start': 8916.793, 'duration': 12.055}], 'summary': 'Optimizing for metrics may lead to harm, wisdom is discernment for right choices.', 'duration': 35.065, 'max_score': 8893.783, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE8893783.jpg'}, {'end': 8992.368, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 8964.212, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 8968.854, 'text': "So we're going to keep adding to it, which is why we were saying earlier, I don't think it's not beautiful.", 'start': 8964.212, 'duration': 4.642}, {'end': 8974.501, 'text': 'And especially if you were just saying one of the metrics you want to optimize for at the individual level is becoming right?', 'start': 8970.197, 'duration': 4.304}, {'end': 8975.302, 'text': "That we're becoming more.", 'start': 8974.521, 'duration': 0.781}, {'end': 8978.425, 'text': 'Well, that then becomes true for the civilization and our metric sets as well.', 'start': 8975.322, 'duration': 3.103}, {'end': 8983.47, 'text': 'And our definition of how to think about a meaningful life and a meaningful civilization.', 'start': 8979.666, 'duration': 3.804}, {'end': 8985.952, 'text': 'I can tell you what some of my favorite metrics are.', 'start': 8984.37, 'duration': 1.582}, {'end': 8992.368, 'text': "What's that? Uh, well, love is obviously not a metric.", 'start': 8986.613, 'duration': 5.755}], 'summary': 'Discussion on metrics for individual and civilization growth.', 'duration': 28.156, 'max_score': 8964.212, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE8964212.jpg'}, {'end': 9047.513, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9022.746, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 9029.769, 'text': "I think that's why what the idea of false idol means in terms of the model of reality not being reality,", 'start': 9022.746, 'duration': 7.023}, {'end': 9034.33, 'text': 'then my sacred relationship is to reality itself, which also binds me to the unknown forever.', 'start': 9029.769, 'duration': 4.561}, {'end': 9036.411, 'text': 'To the known, but also to the unknown.', 'start': 9035.03, 'duration': 1.381}, {'end': 9043.873, 'text': "And there's a sense of sacredness connected to the unknown that creates an epistemic humility that is always seeking not just to optimize the thing I know,", 'start': 9036.431, 'duration': 7.442}, {'end': 9047.513, 'text': 'but to learn new stuff and to be open to perceive reality directly.', 'start': 9043.873, 'duration': 3.64}], 'summary': 'Embracing the unknown fosters humility and openness to learning.', 'duration': 24.767, 'max_score': 9022.746, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE9022746.jpg'}, {'end': 9215.891, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9160.68, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 9163.343, 'text': 'we joke about these questions as silly.', 'start': 9160.68, 'duration': 2.663}, {'end': 9167.129, 'text': "It's funny to watch a person.", 'start': 9164.886, 'duration': 2.243}, {'end': 9171.435, 'text': 'And if I was more of an asshole, I would really stick on that question.', 'start': 9167.97, 'duration': 3.465}, {'end': 9177.93, 'text': "It's a silly question in some sense, but we haven't really considered what it means.", 'start': 9172.628, 'duration': 5.302}, {'end': 9182.371, 'text': 'Just a more concrete version of that question is what is a better world??', 'start': 9178.21, 'duration': 4.161}, {'end': 9185.312, 'text': "What is the kind of world we're trying to create? Really?", 'start': 9182.912, 'duration': 2.4}, {'end': 9187.553, 'text': 'Have you really thought?', 'start': 9186.233, 'duration': 1.32}, {'end': 9191.675, 'text': "I'll give you some kind of simple answers to that that are meaningful to me.", 'start': 9187.573, 'duration': 4.102}, {'end': 9195.016, 'text': "But let me do the societal indices first because they're fun.", 'start': 9192.935, 'duration': 2.081}, {'end': 9200.248, 'text': "Yes we should take a note of this meaningful thing because it's important to come back to.", 'start': 9195.036, 'duration': 5.212}, {'end': 9203.848, 'text': 'Are you reminding me to ask you about the meaning of life? Noted.', 'start': 9201.188, 'duration': 2.66}, {'end': 9208.809, 'text': 'Let me jot that down.', 'start': 9206.129, 'duration': 2.68}, {'end': 9212.83, 'text': 'Because I think I stopped tracking it like 25 open threads.', 'start': 9209.989, 'duration': 2.841}, {'end': 9215.891, 'text': 'Let it all burn.', 'start': 9215.15, 'duration': 0.741}], 'summary': 'Exploring the meaning of life and creating a better world through societal indices.', 'duration': 55.211, 'max_score': 9160.68, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE9160680.jpg'}, {'end': 9274.439, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9266.932, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 9269.895, 'text': "Yeah I think that's a very interesting one to think about.", 'start': 9266.932, 'duration': 2.963}, {'end': 9270.896, 'text': "That's a really interesting one, yeah.", 'start': 9269.915, 'duration': 0.981}, {'end': 9274.439, 'text': 'And this is then also where comfort and addiction start to get very close.', 'start': 9271.116, 'duration': 3.323}], 'summary': 'Discussion on the close relationship between comfort and addiction.', 'duration': 7.507, 'max_score': 9266.932, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE9266932.jpg'}, {'end': 9468.828, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 9450.857, 'weight': 7, 'content': [{'end': 9465.305, 'text': "but when we recognize the language that we speak and the words that we think in and the patterns of thought built into that language and the aesthetics that we like and so much is conditioned in us just based on where we're born you can't not condition people.", 'start': 9450.857, 'duration': 14.448}, {'end': 9468.828, 'text': 'So all you can do is take more responsibility for what the conditioning factors are.', 'start': 9465.345, 'duration': 3.483}], 'summary': 'Language and culture heavily condition our thoughts and aesthetics, necessitating greater responsibility.', 'duration': 17.971, 'max_score': 9450.857, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE9450857.jpg'}], 'start': 8506.834, 'title': 'Refining well-being metrics', 'summary': 'Explores challenges in measuring happiness, proposes new metrics for well-being, discusses optimizing civilization metrics, sacred relationship with reality, and the inverse correlation between addiction and societal health.', 'chapters': [{'end': 8854.906, 'start': 8506.834, 'title': 'Measuring happiness vs comfort', 'summary': 'Discusses the challenges of measuring happiness and comfort, the impact of increased comfort on overall well-being, and proposes new metrics such as personal growth and love as more meaningful measures of well-being.', 'duration': 348.072, 'highlights': ["The difficulty of measuring happiness compared to comfort is highlighted, with a focus on the industrial revolution's emphasis on optimizing for comfort. Difficulty in defining and measuring happiness, emphasis on comfort optimization during the industrial revolution.", 'The impact of increased comfort on well-being is explored, noting the correlation between high comfort levels and high rates of suicide and mental illness. Correlation between high comfort levels and high rates of suicide and mental illness.', 'New metrics for well-being are proposed, including personal growth and love as more meaningful measures, emphasizing the importance of intellectual growth and love towards fellow human beings. Proposal of new metrics for well-being, emphasis on intellectual growth and love as meaningful measures.']}, {'end': 9022.206, 'start': 8855.307, 'title': 'Optimizing metrics for civilization', 'summary': 'Discusses the idea of choosing metrics to optimize for in civilization, exploring the concept of wisdom as a constantly expanding set of metrics while highlighting the limitations of metrics-based optimization and the need for continuous improvement.', 'duration': 166.899, 'highlights': ['The chapter discusses the idea of choosing metrics to optimize for in civilization The speaker raises the question of what metrics would be best to optimize for in civilization, prompting a deeper thought experiment on the potential positive and negative effects of such optimization.', 'Exploring the concept of wisdom as a constantly expanding set of metrics The concept of wisdom is presented as a constantly evolving and expanding set of metrics, emphasizing the need for discernment beyond metrics-based optimization.', 'Highlighting the limitations of metrics-based optimization The speaker points out the limitations of metrics-based optimization by illustrating the potential harm in areas not included in the chosen metrics, emphasizing the importance of discernment and awareness.', "The need for continuous improvement The discussion emphasizes the importance of continuous improvement, suggesting that every metric by itself, without a focus on continuous improvement, becomes a 'paperclip maximizer'."]}, {'end': 9215.891, 'start': 9022.746, 'title': 'The sacred relationship with reality', 'summary': 'Discusses the sacred relationship with reality, the concept of false idols, and the importance of maintaining epistemic humility in seeking knowledge, as well as the significance of meaningful human life in shaping a desirable civilization.', 'duration': 193.145, 'highlights': ['The sacred relationship to reality itself and the unknown creates an epistemic humility, fostering a continuous openness to learning and perceiving reality directly.', 'The concept of false idols is explored, emphasizing the need for a model to be useful but not sacred, as it should not overshadow attention to reality beyond the models.', 'The discussion delves into the significance of meaningful human life in the context of defining a desirable civilization, highlighting the interconnectedness of these concepts.', 'The conversation also touches upon societal indices and the question of creating a better world, reflecting on the importance of considering these profound questions that are often overlooked.']}, {'end': 9486.438, 'start': 9216.271, 'title': 'Inverse correlation of addiction in society', 'summary': 'Discusses the inverse correlation between addiction and societal health, emphasizing the need for ritualized discomfort to build resilience and character, and the importance of voluntary cultural conditioning for societal development.', 'duration': 270.167, 'highlights': ['The inverse correlation between addiction and societal health, suggesting that the more a society produces addiction, the less healthy it is, serves as a fundamental metric.', 'The need for ritualized discomfort to create resilience and character, exemplified through practices like sweat lodges and vision quests, is emphasized for societal development.', 'The importance of voluntary cultural conditioning, where people understand the value of discomfort and resilience, is highlighted for societal progress.', 'The discussion on the impact of conditioning on individuals, acknowledging that conditioning is inevitable and emphasizing the need for responsible conditioning factors, is emphasized for societal development.', 'The concept of building new environments and the need to understand what constitutes a meaningful human life in the context of digital and physical environments is addressed for societal adaptation.']}], 'duration': 979.604, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE8506834.jpg', 'highlights': ['New metrics for well-being proposed, emphasizing intellectual growth and love as meaningful measures', "The difficulty of measuring happiness compared to comfort highlighted, with a focus on the industrial revolution's emphasis on optimizing for comfort", 'Correlation between high comfort levels and high rates of suicide and mental illness', 'The inverse correlation between addiction and societal health serves as a fundamental metric', 'The need for ritualized discomfort to create resilience and character emphasized for societal development', 'The concept of wisdom presented as a constantly evolving set of metrics, emphasizing the need for discernment beyond metrics-based optimization', 'The sacred relationship to reality itself and the unknown fosters continuous openness to learning and perceiving reality directly', 'The discussion on the impact of conditioning on individuals, emphasizing the need for responsible conditioning factors for societal development', 'The importance of voluntary cultural conditioning, where people understand the value of discomfort and resilience, highlighted for societal progress', "The need for continuous improvement emphasized, suggesting that every metric by itself, without a focus on continuous improvement, becomes a 'paperclip maximizer'"]}, {'end': 10763.322, 'segs': [{'end': 10153.658, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 10126.458, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 10136.646, 'text': 'This kind of came to me as a simple way that I kind of relate to it is that a meaningful life involves the mode of being,', 'start': 10126.458, 'duration': 10.188}, {'end': 10139.207, 'text': 'the mode of doing and the mode of becoming.', 'start': 10136.646, 'duration': 2.561}, {'end': 10143.29, 'text': 'And it involves a virtuous relationship between those three.', 'start': 10140.088, 'duration': 3.202}, {'end': 10151.236, 'text': 'And that any of those modes on their own also have failure modes that are not a meaningful life.', 'start': 10144.711, 'duration': 6.525}, {'end': 10153.658, 'text': 'The mode of being.', 'start': 10152.457, 'duration': 1.201}], 'summary': 'A meaningful life involves being, doing, and becoming in a virtuous relationship.', 'duration': 27.2, 'max_score': 10126.458, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE10126458.jpg'}, {'end': 10500.568, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 10471.278, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 10474.481, 'text': "Is that part of this equation? Or it's not necessary?", 'start': 10471.278, 'duration': 3.203}, {'end': 10476.924, 'text': 'Okay, look at how it could be related.', 'start': 10474.682, 'duration': 2.242}, {'end': 10478.886, 'text': "I've experienced fear of death.", 'start': 10477.505, 'duration': 1.381}, {'end': 10481.529, 'text': "I've also experienced..", 'start': 10478.906, 'duration': 2.623}, {'end': 10488.401, 'text': 'times where I thought I was going to die, it felt extremely peaceful and beautiful.', 'start': 10484.318, 'duration': 4.083}, {'end': 10500.568, 'text': "And it's funny, because we can be afraid of death, because we're afraid of hell or bad reincarnation,", 'start': 10489.741, 'duration': 10.827}], 'summary': 'Experiencing fear of death and finding peace in facing mortality.', 'duration': 29.29, 'max_score': 10471.278, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE10471278.jpg'}, {'end': 10610.637, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 10583.781, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 10591.724, 'text': 'but my life can have effects that continue well beyond it then life with a capital L starts mattering more to me than my life.', 'start': 10583.781, 'duration': 7.943}, {'end': 10594.105, 'text': 'My life gets to be a part of and in service to.', 'start': 10592.184, 'duration': 1.921}, {'end': 10601.011, 'text': "and the whole thing about when old men plant trees, the shade of which they'll never get to be in.", 'start': 10595.607, 'duration': 5.404}, {'end': 10610.637, 'text': 'I remember the first time I read this poem by Hafez, the Sufi poet written in the 13th century or something like that.', 'start': 10603.112, 'duration': 7.525}], 'summary': 'Life matters more when in service to others.', 'duration': 26.856, 'max_score': 10583.781, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE10583781.jpg'}], 'start': 9486.438, 'title': 'Designing healthy social environments and fulfilling life', 'summary': 'Explores the deep considerations of civilization design, promoting healthy human bonding, compassion, and compersion, while emphasizing the interconnectedness of meaningful life in its three modes: being, doing, and becoming. it also delves into the impact of emotional states, desire, and death on fostering compassion, creativity, and a fulfilling life.', 'chapters': [{'end': 9536.225, 'start': 9486.438, 'title': 'Designing healthy social environments', 'summary': 'Discusses the deep existential considerations at the heart of civilization design, aiming to create the healthiest, happiest, and most moral individuals, emphasizing the importance of healthy human bonding in social settings.', 'duration': 49.787, 'highlights': ['The chapter emphasizes creating social environments that develop the healthiest, happiest, most moral, noble, and meaningful individuals.', 'The discussion delves into the deep existential considerations at the heart of civilization design, highlighting the importance of what we are building in service towards.', 'The conversation touches on the importance of healthy human bonding, particularly in tribal type settings.']}, {'end': 9712.668, 'start': 9536.225, 'title': 'Emotional states and compassion-compersion axis', 'summary': 'Discusses the correlation between emotional states, introducing the compassion-compersion axis as a model to optimize for, highlighting the negative impact of jealousy and sadism, and advocating for a society that promotes compassion and compersion over jealousy and sadism.', 'duration': 176.443, 'highlights': ["The compassion-compersion axis is introduced as a model to optimize for, promoting positive emotional states and happiness at others' success.", 'The negative impact of jealousy and sadism is highlighted, with an emphasis on the need to minimize these emotions in society.', 'The correlation between emotional states is discussed, emphasizing the importance of promoting positive emotional states and minimizing negative ones.']}, {'end': 10122.971, 'start': 9712.809, 'title': 'The meaning of a fulfilling life', 'summary': "Discusses the concept of compersion, finding joy in others' success, and highlights the healthy version of competition as striving together for ongoing becoming, along with the semantics of a meaningful human life.", 'duration': 410.162, 'highlights': ["The chapter discusses the concept of compersion and finding joy in others' success, highlighting the healthy version of competition as striving together for ongoing becoming. Compersion, finding joy in others' success, healthy competition as striving together for ongoing becoming.", 'The semantics of a meaningful human life are explored, emphasizing the dialectics between individualism and collectivism, and optimizing for individual life to lead to the best society. Semantics of a meaningful human life, dialectics between individualism and collectivism, optimizing for individual life to lead to the best society.']}, {'end': 10320.373, 'start': 10126.458, 'title': 'Modes of meaningful life', 'summary': 'Discusses the three modes of a meaningful life: being, doing, and becoming, emphasizing their interconnectedness and the need for a virtuous relationship between them in order to achieve a fulfilling life, which involves appreciating the beauty of life, contributing to it, and continuously improving in both aspects.', 'duration': 193.915, 'highlights': ['A meaningful life involves the mode of being, doing, and becoming, with a virtuous relationship between them, emphasizing the interconnectedness of these modes. The speaker emphasizes the interconnectedness of the modes of being, doing, and becoming in achieving a meaningful life.', 'The mode of being is about taking in and appreciating the beauty of life in the present moment, grounded in the nature of experience and the meaningfulness of momentary experiences. The mode of being involves appreciating the beauty of life in the present moment and being fundamentally grounded in the nature of experience and the meaningfulness of momentary experiences.', 'The mode of doing involves adding to the beauty of life through creativity, innovation, and service, contributing to the enhancement and protection of life. The mode of doing encompasses adding to the beauty of life through creativity, innovation, and service, ultimately contributing to the enhancement and protection of life.', 'The mode of becoming focuses on deepening both being and doing, aiming to increase the capacity to appreciate and contribute to the beauty of life more profoundly. The mode of becoming aims to deepen both being and doing, enhancing the capacity to appreciate and contribute to the beauty of life more profoundly.']}, {'end': 10763.322, 'start': 10320.413, 'title': 'The nature of desire, compassion, and creativity', 'summary': 'Discusses the nature of desire, the impact of death on meaningful life, and the interconnectedness of consciousness, emphasizing the difference between desires stemming from emptiness and those arising from a sense of fullness, and the significance of death in incentivizing compassion and creativity.', 'duration': 442.909, 'highlights': ['The different types of desire, stemming from a sense of fullness versus emptiness, have contrasting impacts on actions and perpetuation of suffering, with desire arising from a feeling of fullness being more oriented towards adding to the beauty of life and less likely to cause suffering.', "The concept of death creates urgency in actions and incentivizes compersion and compassion, emphasizing the interconnectedness of consciousness and the broader impact of one's actions beyond their lifetime.", "The idea of being forgotten by future generations evokes a sense of interconnectedness with the past and gratitude towards unknown individuals whose actions have shaped one's life, highlighting the impact of collective consciousness and the interconnectedness of human experiences across time."]}], 'duration': 1276.884, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE9486438.jpg', 'highlights': ['The chapter emphasizes creating social environments that develop the healthiest, happiest, most moral, noble, and meaningful individuals.', "The compassion-compersion axis is introduced as a model to optimize for, promoting positive emotional states and happiness at others' success.", "The chapter discusses the concept of compersion and finding joy in others' success, highlighting the healthy version of competition as striving together for ongoing becoming.", 'A meaningful life involves the mode of being, doing, and becoming, with a virtuous relationship between them, emphasizing the interconnectedness of these modes.', 'The different types of desire, stemming from a sense of fullness versus emptiness, have contrasting impacts on actions and perpetuation of suffering, with desire arising from a feeling of fullness being more oriented towards adding to the beauty of life and less likely to cause suffering.']}, {'end': 11643.983, 'segs': [{'end': 10797.863, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 10763.322, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 10766.324, 'text': 'are we being good ancestors and respect for the ancestors beyond the names?', 'start': 10763.322, 'duration': 3.002}, {'end': 10768.345, 'text': "I think that's a very healthy idea.", 'start': 10767.044, 'duration': 1.301}, {'end': 10775.49, 'text': 'But let me return to a much less beautiful and much less pleasant conversation.', 'start': 10769.966, 'duration': 5.524}, {'end': 10777.352, 'text': 'You mentioned prison.', 'start': 10776.491, 'duration': 0.861}, {'end': 10778.612, 'text': 'Back to X-Risk, okay.', 'start': 10777.512, 'duration': 1.1}, {'end': 10781.875, 'text': 'And conditioning.', 'start': 10781.014, 'duration': 0.861}, {'end': 10785.257, 'text': 'You mentioned something about the state.', 'start': 10783.416, 'duration': 1.841}, {'end': 10797.863, 'text': "So.. What role, let's talk about companies, governments, parents, all the mechanisms that can be a source of conditioning.", 'start': 10788.159, 'duration': 9.704}], 'summary': 'Discussion on respecting ancestors and conditioning by companies, governments, and parents.', 'duration': 34.541, 'max_score': 10763.322, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE10763322.jpg'}, {'end': 10998.856, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 10976.123, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 10987.591, 'text': 'I think we can say that the natural state of humans, if we want to describe such a thing, was to live in tribes that were below the Dunbar number.', 'start': 10976.123, 'duration': 11.468}, {'end': 10996.416, 'text': 'Meaning that for a few hundred thousand years of human history, all of the groups of humans mostly stayed under that size.', 'start': 10989.452, 'duration': 6.964}, {'end': 10998.856, 'text': 'And whenever it would get up to that size, it would end up cleaving.', 'start': 10996.916, 'duration': 1.94}], 'summary': 'Human tribes historically stayed below dunbar number for hundreds of thousands of years.', 'duration': 22.733, 'max_score': 10976.123, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE10976123.jpg'}, {'end': 11046.15, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 11016.859, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 11019.72, 'text': "But that's still the wild state of people.", 'start': 11016.859, 'duration': 2.861}, {'end': 11027.444, 'text': "And maybe it's useful to do as a side statement, which I've recently looked at a bunch of papers around Dunbar's number,", 'start': 11020.562, 'duration': 6.882}, {'end': 11029.085, 'text': 'where the mean is actually 150..', 'start': 11027.444, 'duration': 1.641}, {'end': 11032.606, 'text': "If you actually look at the original paper, it's really a range.", 'start': 11029.085, 'duration': 3.521}, {'end': 11035.607, 'text': "So it's actually somewhere under a thousand.", 'start': 11033.186, 'duration': 2.421}, {'end': 11038.568, 'text': "So it's a range of like two to 500 or whatever it is.", 'start': 11036.067, 'duration': 2.501}, {'end': 11046.15, 'text': 'But like you could argue that the, I think it actually is exactly two, the range is two to 520, something like that.', 'start': 11039.068, 'duration': 7.082}], 'summary': "Dunbar's number varies from 2 to 520, not just 150.", 'duration': 29.291, 'max_score': 11016.859, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE11016859.jpg'}, {'end': 11140.521, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 11112.048, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 11118.772, 'text': 'Everybody can know everyone intimately enough that if your actions made anyone else do poorly,', 'start': 11112.048, 'duration': 6.724}, {'end': 11124.094, 'text': "it's your extended family and you're stuck living with them and you know who they are, and there's no anonymous people.", 'start': 11118.772, 'duration': 5.322}, {'end': 11125.695, 'text': "There's no just them and over there.", 'start': 11124.234, 'duration': 1.461}, {'end': 11134.04, 'text': "And that's one part of what leads to a kind of tribal process where what's good for the individual and good for the whole has a coupling.", 'start': 11126.916, 'duration': 7.124}, {'end': 11140.521, 'text': 'Also below that scale, Everyone is somewhat aware of what everybody else is doing.', 'start': 11135.08, 'duration': 5.441}], 'summary': "In this society, everyone is intimately connected, leading to a tribal process and awareness of others' actions.", 'duration': 28.473, 'max_score': 11112.048, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE11112048.jpg'}, {'end': 11252.827, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 11223.685, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 11228.588, 'text': 'a civilization has binding energy that is holding them together and has cleaving energy.', 'start': 11223.685, 'duration': 4.903}, {'end': 11231.971, 'text': 'And if the binding energy exceeds the cleaving energy, that civilization will last.', 'start': 11228.668, 'duration': 3.303}, {'end': 11238.055, 'text': 'And so there are things that we can do to decrease the cleaving energy within the society, things we can do to increase the binding energy.', 'start': 11232.85, 'duration': 5.205}, {'end': 11242.679, 'text': 'I think naturally we saw that had certain characteristics up to a certain size, kind of tribalism.', 'start': 11238.255, 'duration': 4.424}, {'end': 11245.681, 'text': 'That ended with a few things.', 'start': 11244.26, 'duration': 1.421}, {'end': 11252.827, 'text': "It ended with people having migrated enough that when you started to get resource wars, you couldn't just migrate away easily.", 'start': 11245.761, 'duration': 7.066}], 'summary': "A civilization's longevity depends on binding energy surpassing cleaving energy. societal changes can decrease cleaving energy and increase binding energy.", 'duration': 29.142, 'max_score': 11223.685, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE11223685.jpg'}], 'start': 10763.322, 'title': 'State and global governance', 'summary': 'Examines the role of the state in conditioning society, tribalism, dunbar number, and the impact of societal size, along with the future of global and local governance, emphasizing emergent order, coordination of choice-making, and challenges faced by nation states.', 'chapters': [{'end': 11305.194, 'start': 10763.322, 'title': 'Role of state in conditioning society', 'summary': 'Discusses the role of the state in conditioning society, the concept of tribalism, the dunbar number, and the impact of societal size on governance and human behavior.', 'duration': 541.872, 'highlights': ['The chapter discusses the concept of tribalism and the impact of societal size on governance and human behavior, including the Dunbar number, which refers to the average number of individuals with whom a person can maintain stable social relationships. concept of tribalism, societal size impact, Dunbar number', 'It questions the role of the state in conditioning society, examines the idea of decentralizing power, and explores the potential benefits of smaller governance structures. role of the state, decentralizing power, benefits of smaller governance structures', 'It considers the binding and cleaving energies within a civilization, suggesting that if the binding energy exceeds the cleaving energy, the civilization will last, and discusses the impact of tribal warfare and resource wars on societal size and structure. binding and cleaving energies, impact of tribal warfare and resource wars']}, {'end': 11643.983, 'start': 11305.735, 'title': 'Future of global and local governance', 'summary': 'Discusses the future of global and local governance, emphasizing the need for emergent order and coordination of choice-making to avoid chaos and oppression, with a focus on governance at the level of cities and the challenges faced by nation states.', 'duration': 338.248, 'highlights': ['The future of global and local governance, emphasizing the need for emergent order and coordination of choice-making to avoid chaos and oppression. The chapter delves into the concept of emergent order and coordination of choice-making to prevent chaos and oppression in governance at both global and local levels.', 'The focus on governance at the level of cities and the challenges faced by nation states. It emphasizes the significance of governance at the city level and challenges the validity of nation states, highlighting the increasing productivity per capita in cities and the organic nature of their development.', 'The toggling between order via oppression and chaos and the idea of democracy as a means to achieve emergent order. It discusses the dichotomy between order via oppression and chaos and explores the concept of democracy as a means to achieve emergent order, focusing on the challenges and possibilities of different democratic models.', "The comparison between authoritarian coordination and the challenges faced by democratic nation states. It compares the effectiveness of authoritarian coordination, exemplified by China's achievements, with the challenges faced by democratic nation states, highlighting the impact on economic inequality and global supply chains."]}], 'duration': 880.661, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE10763322.jpg', 'highlights': ['The chapter examines the concept of tribalism, societal size impact, and the Dunbar number.', 'It questions the role of the state, explores decentralizing power, and the benefits of smaller governance structures.', 'It discusses the binding and cleaving energies within a civilization and the impact of tribal warfare and resource wars on societal size and structure.', 'The chapter emphasizes the need for emergent order and coordination of choice-making in global and local governance to prevent chaos and oppression.', 'It highlights the significance of governance at the city level and challenges the validity of nation states, focusing on increasing productivity per capita in cities and their organic development.', 'The chapter explores the dichotomy between order via oppression and chaos and the concept of democracy as a means to achieve emergent order.', 'It compares the effectiveness of authoritarian coordination with the challenges faced by democratic nation states, emphasizing the impact on economic inequality and global supply chains.']}, {'end': 13131.859, 'segs': [{'end': 11839.869, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 11785.178, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 11793.768, 'text': 'the coordination of the choice making, where emerges some kind of order to where, like something that applies at the scale of the family,', 'start': 11785.178, 'duration': 8.59}, {'end': 11800.891, 'text': 'the extended family, the city, the country, the continent, the whole world.', 'start': 11793.768, 'duration': 7.123}, {'end': 11807.013, 'text': 'And then does that so dynamically, constantly changing based on the needs of the people, sort of always evolving.', 'start': 11801.471, 'duration': 5.542}, {'end': 11810.375, 'text': 'And it would all be owned by Google.', 'start': 11808.254, 'duration': 2.121}, {'end': 11813.076, 'text': "Like doesn't this..", 'start': 11812.335, 'duration': 0.741}, {'end': 11822.059, 'text': "Is there a way to, so first of all, you're optimistic that you could basically create, that technology can save us.", 'start': 11814.915, 'duration': 7.144}, {'end': 11825.06, 'text': 'Technology. at creating platforms.', 'start': 11822.459, 'duration': 2.601}, {'end': 11831.323, 'text': 'by technology I mean, like software, network platforms, that allows humans to deliberate,', 'start': 11825.06, 'duration': 6.263}, {'end': 11836.526, 'text': 'like make government together dynamically without the need for a leader.', 'start': 11831.323, 'duration': 5.203}, {'end': 11838.387, 'text': "that's on a podium screaming stuff.", 'start': 11836.526, 'duration': 1.861}, {'end': 11839.869, 'text': "That's one.", 'start': 11839.289, 'duration': 0.58}], 'summary': 'Technology creating dynamic platforms for collective decision-making without a leader, owned by google.', 'duration': 54.691, 'max_score': 11785.178, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE11785178.jpg'}, {'end': 11923.548, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 11899.441, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 11906.164, 'text': "I will not try to do this rigorously because there are academics who will disagree on the subtle details, but I'll do it kind of like illustratively.", 'start': 11899.441, 'duration': 6.723}, {'end': 11912.264, 'text': 'You think about the emergence of the plow, the ox drawn plow, in the beginning of agriculture that came with it,', 'start': 11907.762, 'duration': 4.502}, {'end': 11919.206, 'text': 'where before that you had hunter gather and then you had horticulture, kind of a digging stick, but not the plow.', 'start': 11912.264, 'duration': 6.942}, {'end': 11922.427, 'text': 'Well, that the world changed a lot with that.', 'start': 11920.207, 'duration': 2.22}, {'end': 11923.548, 'text': 'Right And, and.', 'start': 11922.487, 'duration': 1.061}], 'summary': 'The emergence of the ox-drawn plow revolutionized agriculture, marking a significant shift from hunter-gatherer and horticultural practices.', 'duration': 24.107, 'max_score': 11899.441, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE11899441.jpg'}, {'end': 12132.174, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 12104.866, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 12107.807, 'text': 'Yes, And the externalities are not just physical to the environment.', 'start': 12104.866, 'duration': 2.941}, {'end': 12111.868, 'text': "they're also to how the people are being conditioned and how the relationality between them is being conditioned.", 'start': 12107.807, 'duration': 4.061}, {'end': 12120.01, 'text': "But the question I'm asking you, so I personally would rather be led by a plow and a tractor than Stalin, okay? That's the question I'm asking you.", 'start': 12111.888, 'duration': 8.122}, {'end': 12132.174, 'text': "Is in creating an emergent government where people, where there's a democracy that's dynamic, that makes choices, that does governance at..", 'start': 12120.33, 'duration': 11.844}], 'summary': 'Externalities affect environment and people; democracy needed for dynamic governance.', 'duration': 27.308, 'max_score': 12104.866, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE12104866.jpg'}, {'end': 12208.026, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 12180.278, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 12186.86, 'text': 'much more importantly, to me at least, is just basic social interaction, the mechanisms of human transacting with each other in the space of ideas.', 'start': 12180.278, 'duration': 6.582}, {'end': 12189.945, 'text': "So yes, it's not agnostic.", 'start': 12187.722, 'duration': 2.223}, {'end': 12191.607, 'text': 'Definitely not agnostic.', 'start': 12190.565, 'duration': 1.042}, {'end': 12193.809, 'text': "You've had a brilliant rant there.", 'start': 12192.127, 'duration': 1.682}, {'end': 12195.511, 'text': 'The tractor has effects.', 'start': 12194.27, 'duration': 1.241}, {'end': 12202.539, 'text': "But isn't that the way we achieve an emergent system of governance? Yes, but I wouldn't say we're on track.", 'start': 12196.212, 'duration': 6.327}, {'end': 12208.026, 'text': "You haven't seen anything promising.", 'start': 12206.645, 'duration': 1.381}], 'summary': 'Discussion on human interaction and emergent governance with no promising signs.', 'duration': 27.748, 'max_score': 12180.278, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE12180278.jpg'}, {'end': 12545.992, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 12517.248, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 12522.753, 'text': "If you ultimately are trying to move the world in a direction that is really really different than the direction I'm trying to,", 'start': 12517.248, 'duration': 5.505}, {'end': 12524.115, 'text': 'we have very different values.', 'start': 12522.753, 'duration': 1.362}, {'end': 12525.376, 'text': "we're going to have a hard time.", 'start': 12524.115, 'duration': 1.261}, {'end': 12528.639, 'text': 'And if you think the world is a very different world, right? If you..', 'start': 12526.077, 'duration': 2.562}, {'end': 12534.137, 'text': 'think that systemic racism is rampant everywhere and one of the worst problems.', 'start': 12529.611, 'duration': 4.526}, {'end': 12535.378, 'text': "And I think it's not even a thing.", 'start': 12534.177, 'duration': 1.201}, {'end': 12541.666, 'text': "If you think climate change is almost existential and I think it's not even a thing, we're gonna have a really hard time coordinating.", 'start': 12535.979, 'duration': 5.687}, {'end': 12545.992, 'text': 'And so we have to be able to have shared sense-making of.', 'start': 12542.687, 'duration': 3.305}], 'summary': 'Differing values on systemic racism and climate change hinder coordination.', 'duration': 28.744, 'max_score': 12517.248, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE12517248.jpg'}], 'start': 11643.983, 'title': 'Societal evolution and governance', 'summary': 'Discusses the impact of term limits on long-term planning, the role of technology in governance, the influence of the plow on societal evolution, including surplus grain, religious beliefs, gender roles, and the rise of feminism and democracy, and the importance of sense-making, shared values, and education in democracy.', 'chapters': [{'end': 11896.72, 'start': 11643.983, 'title': 'Long-term planning without monarchy', 'summary': 'Discusses the negative effects of term limits on long-term planning, the potential for technology to facilitate dynamic decision-making in governance, and the impact of technology on shaping human behavior and social systems.', 'duration': 252.737, 'highlights': ['The negative effects of term limits on long-term planning Term limits lead to short-sighted decision-making as politicians focus on short-term returns for re-election, resulting in a lack of investment in long-term projects such as high-speed trains or fusion energy.', 'Potential for technology to facilitate dynamic decision-making in governance The discussion explores the idea of using technology, such as network platforms, to enable dynamic and collaborative decision-making in governance without the need for a single leader or podium-based leadership.', 'Impact of technology on shaping human behavior and social systems The chapter delves into the concept of technology eliciting patterns of human behavior and shaping social systems, drawing on insights from anthropology and highlighting the influence of information technologies on beliefs, values, and social structures.']}, {'end': 12481.974, 'start': 11899.441, 'title': 'Impact of the plow on societal evolution', 'summary': 'Discusses the profound impact of the ox-drawn plow on societal evolution, including its role in creating surplus grain, changing religious beliefs, altering gender roles, and influencing the rise of feminism and democracy, while pointing out the responsibility of technology in shaping societal values and behaviors.', 'duration': 582.533, 'highlights': ['The emergence of the ox-drawn plow revolutionized agriculture by enabling the cultivation of grain, leading to a storable caloric surplus that allowed for population growth and famine resilience. The proliferation of the ox-drawn plow enabled cultures to cultivate grain, creating a storable caloric surplus that facilitated population growth and resilience during famines.', 'The adoption of the plow led to the decline of animism and a shift in religious and spiritual beliefs, influencing the emergence of new religious and spiritual ideas. The use of the plow contributed to the decline of animism and prompted a shift in religious and spiritual beliefs, leading to the emergence of new religious ideas and perspectives.', 'The transition to plow-based agriculture altered gender roles, with men becoming primarily responsible for plowing due to the physical demands, resulting in changes in caloric supply and the shift in representation of male-female gods. The shift to plow-based agriculture led to changes in gender roles, with men taking on the primary responsibility of plowing, impacting caloric supply and the representation of male-female gods in religious beliefs.', 'The rise of feminism in the West followed the empowerment of women through technological advancements like the tractor, diminishing the differential in male upper body strength and leading to the assertion of equal capabilities. The empowerment of women through technological advancements like the tractor contributed to the rise of feminism in the West by diminishing the differential in male upper body strength and promoting the assertion of equal capabilities.', 'Technology plays a significant role in shaping societal values and behaviors, as evidenced by the impact of the plow on animism, gender roles, religious beliefs, and the rise of feminism and democracy. The influence of technology, such as the plow, on animism, gender roles, religious beliefs, and the rise of feminism and democracy demonstrates its significant role in shaping societal values and behaviors.']}, {'end': 13131.859, 'start': 12482.875, 'title': 'Coordination and values in democracy', 'summary': 'Discusses the importance of sense making, meaning making, shared values, and education in coordinating choice making for democracy, emphasizing the need for comprehensive education and social systems to facilitate sense-making and values generation, and explores the potential of the internet in recreating the town hall proposition crafting process.', 'duration': 648.984, 'highlights': ['The importance of sense making, meaning making, and shared values in coordinating choice making for democracy is emphasized, highlighting the impact of differing values in creating challenges for coordination.', 'The necessity of comprehensive education and social systems for facilitating sense-making and values generation in democracy is discussed, with a focus on the role of education in building a population capable of making informed choices and the fourth estate in providing unbiased information.', 'The potential of the internet in recreating the town hall proposition crafting process, facilitating synthesis of competing ideas and sense-making, is explored, with an emphasis on the need for platforms that encourage collective building and vetting of information towards better coordination.', 'The positive impact of platforms like Wikipedia in increasing knowledge, empathy, and understanding of historical events, injustices, and their effects on communication and decision-making is highlighted, emphasizing the importance of open source sharing of information and its potential effects on societal systems.']}], 'duration': 1487.876, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE11643983.jpg', 'highlights': ['The negative effects of term limits on long-term planning', 'Potential for technology to facilitate dynamic decision-making in governance', 'Impact of technology on shaping human behavior and social systems', 'The emergence of the ox-drawn plow revolutionized agriculture', 'The adoption of the plow led to the decline of animism and a shift in religious and spiritual beliefs', 'The transition to plow-based agriculture altered gender roles', 'The rise of feminism in the West followed the empowerment of women through technological advancements', 'The importance of sense making, meaning making, and shared values in coordinating choice making for democracy', 'The necessity of comprehensive education and social systems for facilitating sense-making and values generation in democracy', 'The potential of the internet in recreating the town hall proposition crafting process', 'The positive impact of platforms like Wikipedia in increasing knowledge, empathy, and understanding of historical events']}, {'end': 15310.529, 'segs': [{'end': 13181.961, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 13154.705, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 13159.449, 'text': 'Then not get upset by that, because I then come back to how to make it better.', 'start': 13154.705, 'duration': 4.744}, {'end': 13164.313, 'text': 'Just a relationship between optimism and pessimism and the dialectic of how they can work.', 'start': 13159.95, 'duration': 4.363}, {'end': 13171.399, 'text': 'So when I, of course we can say that Wikipedia is a pretty awesome example of a thing.', 'start': 13165.134, 'duration': 6.265}, {'end': 13181.961, 'text': 'We can look at the places where it has limits or has failed, where, on a celebrity topic or corporate interest topic,', 'start': 13172.557, 'duration': 9.404}], 'summary': 'Analyzing the relationship between optimism and pessimism, using wikipedia as an example.', 'duration': 27.256, 'max_score': 13154.705, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE13154705.jpg'}, {'end': 13340.94, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 13297.595, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 13301.039, 'text': "And this is now the whole idea that if you aren't paying for the product, you are the product.", 'start': 13297.595, 'duration': 3.444}, {'end': 13310.329, 'text': 'If they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholder to maximize profit, their customer is the advertiser.', 'start': 13303.561, 'duration': 6.768}, {'end': 13315.615, 'text': "the user who it's being built for is to do behavioral mod for them, for advertisers.", 'start': 13310.329, 'duration': 5.286}, {'end': 13323.317, 'text': "that's a whole different thing than that same type of tech could have been if applied with a different business model or different purpose.", 'start': 13316.656, 'duration': 6.661}, {'end': 13340.94, 'text': "I think there's because Facebook and Google and other information and communication platforms end up harvesting data about user behavior that allows them to model who the people are in a way that gives them more,", 'start': 13325.798, 'duration': 15.142}], 'summary': 'Free products make users the product for advertisers, influencing user behavior for profit.', 'duration': 43.345, 'max_score': 13297.595, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE13297595.jpg'}, {'end': 14248.047, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 14086.647, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 14097.372, 'text': "And so do we want to have some groups utilizing that type of tech to direct other people's attention?", 'start': 14086.647, 'duration': 10.725}, {'end': 14106.519, 'text': 'If so, towards what metrics of what a good civilization and good human life would be?', 'start': 14097.712, 'duration': 8.807}, {'end': 14108.499, 'text': "What's the oversight process??", 'start': 14107.159, 'duration': 1.34}, {'end': 14109.96, 'text': 'What is the?', 'start': 14108.82, 'duration': 1.14}, {'end': 14113.24, 'text': "Transparency I can answer all the things you're mentioning.", 'start': 14109.96, 'duration': 3.28}, {'end': 14115.641, 'text': 'I can build..', 'start': 14114.181, 'duration': 1.46}, {'end': 14121.082, 'text': "I guarantee you, if I'm not such a lazy ass, I'll be part of the many people doing.", 'start': 14115.641, 'duration': 5.441}, {'end': 14126.163, 'text': 'this is transparency and control, giving control to individual people.', 'start': 14121.082, 'duration': 5.081}, {'end': 14129.964, 'text': 'Okay, so maybe the corporation..', 'start': 14126.243, 'duration': 3.721}, {'end': 14137.501, 'text': "has coordination on its goals that all of its customers or users together don't have.", 'start': 14131.636, 'duration': 5.865}, {'end': 14148.99, 'text': "So there's some asymmetry of its goals, but maybe I could actually help all of the customers to coordinate, almost like a labor union or whatever,", 'start': 14137.581, 'duration': 11.409}, {'end': 14154.655, 'text': 'by informing and educating them adequately about the effects the externalities on them.', 'start': 14148.99, 'duration': 5.665}, {'end': 14155.135, 'text': 'This is not..', 'start': 14154.675, 'duration': 0.46}, {'end': 14157.956, 'text': 'toxic waste going into the ocean and the atmosphere.', 'start': 14156.075, 'duration': 1.881}, {'end': 14167.923, 'text': "it's their minds, their beings, their families, their relationships, such that they will, in group, change their behavior.", 'start': 14157.956, 'duration': 9.967}, {'end': 14176.769, 'text': "One way of saying what you're saying, I think, is that you think that you can rescue homo economicus.", 'start': 14170.845, 'duration': 5.924}, {'end': 14184.566, 'text': 'from the rational actor that will pursue all the goods and services and choose the best one at the best price,', 'start': 14178.143, 'duration': 6.423}, {'end': 14191.31, 'text': "the kind of Rand von Mises Hayek that you can rescue, that from Dan Ariely and behavioral econ that says that's actually not how people make choices.", 'start': 14184.566, 'duration': 6.744}, {'end': 14195.992, 'text': "They make it based on status hacking largely, whether it's good for them or not in the long term.", 'start': 14191.35, 'duration': 4.642}, {'end': 14208.439, 'text': "And the large asymmetric corporation can run propaganda and narrative warfare that hits people's status buttons and their limbic hijacks and their lots of other things in ways that They can't even perceive that are happening.", 'start': 14196.173, 'duration': 12.266}, {'end': 14211.36, 'text': "They're not paying attention to that.", 'start': 14209.86, 'duration': 1.5}, {'end': 14214.802, 'text': 'The site is employing psychologists and split testing and whatever else.', 'start': 14211.38, 'duration': 3.422}, {'end': 14219.244, 'text': "So you're saying I think we can recover homo economicus.", 'start': 14216.703, 'duration': 2.541}, {'end': 14222.346, 'text': 'And not just through a single like mechanism technology.', 'start': 14219.964, 'duration': 2.382}, {'end': 14230.71, 'text': "There's, there's the not to keep mentioning the guy, but platforms like Joe Rogan and so on, that that make help,", 'start': 14222.366, 'duration': 8.344}, {'end': 14240.763, 'text': 'make viral the ways that the education of negative externalities can become viral in this world.', 'start': 14230.71, 'duration': 10.053}, {'end': 14248.047, 'text': 'So interestingly, I actually agree with you that..', 'start': 14240.823, 'duration': 7.224}], 'summary': 'Discussing oversight and transparency in tech and corporations, aiming for behavioral change through education on negative externalities.', 'duration': 161.4, 'max_score': 14086.647, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE14086647.jpg'}, {'end': 14718.56, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 14692.031, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 14695.634, 'text': "And if there was a really shitty job to do, he'd say, see the job, do the job, stay out of the misery.", 'start': 14692.031, 'duration': 3.603}, {'end': 14697.995, 'text': "Just don't indulge any negativity, do the things that need done.", 'start': 14695.734, 'duration': 2.261}, {'end': 14703.762, 'text': "And so there's an empowerment and a nobility together.", 'start': 14699.236, 'duration': 4.526}, {'end': 14709.829, 'text': 'And yeah, extraordinarily fortunate.', 'start': 14706.085, 'duration': 3.744}, {'end': 14718.56, 'text': "Is there ways you think you could have been a better son? Is there things you regret? That's an interesting question.", 'start': 14710.61, 'duration': 7.95}], 'summary': 'Embrace empowerment and nobility, avoid negativity, and focus on getting things done. reflect on being a better son and any regrets.', 'duration': 26.529, 'max_score': 14692.031, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE14692031.jpg'}, {'end': 15275.337, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 15226.459, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 15237.411, 'text': 'that you work in machine learning and the optimism that wants to look at the issues but wants to look at how this increased technological power could be applied to solving them.', 'start': 15226.459, 'duration': 10.952}, {'end': 15245.06, 'text': 'And that even thinking about the broadcast of like, can I help people understand the issues better and help organize them?', 'start': 15237.872, 'duration': 7.188}, {'end': 15249.406, 'text': "Like, fundamentally you're, you're oriented like Wikipedia,", 'start': 15245.54, 'duration': 3.866}, {'end': 15256.54, 'text': 'what I see to really try to tend to the information commons without another agentic interest distorting it.', 'start': 15249.406, 'duration': 7.134}, {'end': 15268.509, 'text': 'For you to be able to get guys like Lee Smolin and Roger Penrose and the greatest thinkers that are alive and have them on the show.', 'start': 15258.103, 'duration': 10.406}, {'end': 15272.714, 'text': 'And most people would never be exposed to them and talk about it in a way that people can understand.', 'start': 15269.049, 'duration': 3.665}, {'end': 15275.337, 'text': "I think it's an incredible service.", 'start': 15272.734, 'duration': 2.603}], 'summary': 'The speaker discusses using technological power for problem-solving, providing accessible information, and featuring prominent thinkers in a show.', 'duration': 48.878, 'max_score': 15226.459, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE15226459.jpg'}], 'start': 13132.519, 'title': 'Impact of technology, new feudalism, and global order', 'summary': "Explores the interplay between optimism and pessimism in innovation, emphasizing ethical technological development. it discusses the rise of functional monopolies due to exponential technology, and the need for emergent global order and participatory governance at scale to address the novel problem landscape posed by exponential tech. additionally, it highlights the profound impact of a father's teachings on self-empowerment and gratitude for existence.", 'chapters': [{'end': 13535.16, 'start': 13132.519, 'title': 'Optimism, pessimism, and the impact of technology', 'summary': 'Explores the interplay between optimism and pessimism in innovation, examining the impact of technology on information dissemination, business models, and societal control, emphasizing the need for ethical and purpose-driven technological development.', 'duration': 402.641, 'highlights': ["Facebook's use of privileged information to modify user behavior raises ethical concerns and underscores the need for a fiduciary responsibility in the context of technology development. Facebook's gathering of privileged information to modify user behavior, surpassing the insights of professionals like therapists or doctors, raises ethical concerns and emphasizes the need for a fiduciary responsibility in technology development.", "The impact of exponential technology on authoritarian states' ability to enhance surveillance and control, as opposed to democratic societies' limited direction of technology for societal improvement, underscores the disparity in social tech evolution. Authoritarian states are intentionally leveraging exponential technology to enhance surveillance and control, while democratic open societies are not effectively directing technology for societal improvement, reflecting a disparity in social tech evolution.", "The juxtaposition of Wikipedia's decentralized creation of accessible information against its limitations and failures highlights the complexities of balancing different objectives and business models in technology development. The decentralized creation of accessible information by Wikipedia is contrasted with its limitations and failures, emphasizing the complexities of balancing different objectives and business models in technology development."]}, {'end': 14288.108, 'start': 13535.16, 'title': 'Exponential tech and new feudalism', 'summary': 'Discusses the rise of functional monopolies due to network dynamics, the impact of exponential technology on corporations and nation states, the shift in the asymmetry of power in markets, and the potential of social tech to shape emergent order in a fundamentally healthy direction.', 'duration': 752.948, 'highlights': ["Exponential technology has led to the rise of functional monopolies due to network dynamics, giving certain corporations more control and market share, such as Amazon having a larger percentage than all other markets combined. Rise of functional monopolies due to network dynamics, Amazon's significant market share.", 'The asymmetry of power in markets has shifted significantly, as modern corporations wield unprecedented levels of technology, money, and information processing compared to historical counterparts, impacting supply and demand dynamics. Significant shift in the asymmetry of power in markets, impact on supply and demand dynamics.', 'Exponential technology and corporations are being directed by authoritarian nation states, leading to the emergence of a new feudalism where corporations exert considerable influence, potentially surpassing nation states in power. Influence of authoritarian nation states on exponential technology and corporations, the emergence of a new feudalism.', 'The potential of social tech to shape emergent order in a fundamentally healthy direction by countering the negative impacts of exponential technology, such as manufactured demand and addictive patterns driven by corporations. Potential of social tech to counter negative impacts of exponential technology, such as manufactured demand and addictive patterns.']}, {'end': 14537.765, 'start': 14288.148, 'title': 'Global emergent order and exponential tech', 'summary': 'Discusses the need for emergent global order, utilizing exponential tech for comprehensive education and problem-solving processes, due to the novel problem landscape posed by exponential tech, urging for new cultural enlightenment and participatory governance at scale.', 'duration': 249.617, 'highlights': ['The need for emergent global order and harmony at various scales is emphasized, from individual conflict resolution to global alignment of choices. The chapter emphasizes the importance of emergent global order and harmony at various scales, from individual conflict resolution to global alignment of choices.', 'Utilizing digital and exponential tech for comprehensive education and problem-solving processes is proposed to support increased comprehensive education and informedness. The chapter proposes utilizing digital and exponential tech for comprehensive education and problem-solving processes to support increased comprehensive education and informedness.', "The urgent need for new problem-solving processes that can internalize externality, solve problems on the right time and geographic scale, and not be imposed but emerge from people's participation and desire is emphasized. The chapter emphasizes the urgent need for new problem-solving processes that can internalize externality, solve problems on the right time and geographic scale, and not be imposed but emerge from people's participation and desire.", 'The challenges posed by exponential tech, the failure of existing problem-solving processes, and the need for new cultural enlightenment and participatory governance at scale are discussed. The chapter discusses the challenges posed by exponential tech, the failure of existing problem-solving processes, and the need for new cultural enlightenment and participatory governance at scale.']}, {'end': 15310.529, 'start': 14538.946, 'title': "Life lessons and love: a father's influence", 'summary': "Highlights the profound impact of a father's teachings on self-empowerment, love, and embracing the beauty of life, expressed through personal experiences and learning from mistakes, ultimately leading to an overwhelming sense of gratitude and appreciation for existence.", 'duration': 771.583, 'highlights': ["The profound impact of a father's teachings on self-empowerment, love, and embracing the beauty of life. The transcript delves into the influence of the speaker's father in imparting valuable life lessons related to self-empowerment, the pursuit of virtuous purposes, and the intersection of ideas and practices towards the collective good.", 'Expressing personal experiences and learning from mistakes, leading to an overwhelming sense of gratitude and appreciation for existence. The speaker discusses personal experiences, including moments of profound beauty and gratitude, along with acknowledging past mistakes and expressing remorse, ultimately leading to a deep appreciation for life.', "Reflection on the impact of teachings on individual growth and evolving perspectives over time. The transcript reflects on the evolution of the speaker's perspectives, including moments of conflict with the father's beliefs, subsequent realizations, and the growth in understanding and respect for the influence of teachings over time."]}], 'duration': 2178.01, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/hGRNUw559SE/pics/hGRNUw559SE13132519.jpg', 'highlights': ["The urgent need for new problem-solving processes that can internalize externality, solve problems on the right time and geographic scale, and not be imposed but emerge from people's participation and desire.", 'The chapter emphasizes the importance of emergent global order and harmony at various scales, from individual conflict resolution to global alignment of choices.', "Rise of functional monopolies due to network dynamics, Amazon's significant market share.", 'The potential of social tech to counter negative impacts of exponential technology, such as manufactured demand and addictive patterns.', "The impact of exponential technology on authoritarian states' ability to enhance surveillance and control, as opposed to democratic societies' limited direction of technology for societal improvement, underscores the disparity in social tech evolution."]}], 'highlights': ['Daniel Schmachtenberger aims to optimize human potential individually and collectively.', 'The magic of strangers coming together to create something greater than the sum of their parts.', 'Exploration of the limitations of human perception in understanding advanced alien technology.', "Humans' tool-making ability has allowed them to become apex predators in all environments.", 'The distinction between complex and complicated systems, emphasizing emergent behavior in complex systems.', 'The exponential growth of GDP leading to accelerated planetary boundary risks is outlined.', 'The interconnectedness of the world due to globalization and exponential technology necessitates a shift towards considering the interconnectedness of everything.', 'New metrics for well-being proposed, emphasizing intellectual growth and love as meaningful measures.', "The compassion-compersion axis is introduced as a model to optimize for, promoting positive emotional states and happiness at others' success.", 'The chapter emphasizes creating social environments that develop the healthiest, happiest, most moral, noble, and meaningful individuals.', 'The negative effects of term limits on long-term planning.', "The urgent need for new problem-solving processes that can internalize externality and not be imposed but emerge from people's participation and desire."]}