Daniel Schmachtenberger: Ai Extinction & The Metacrisis

Daniel Schmachtenberger is a social philosopher and founding member of The Consilience Project. Sponsors:
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LINKS MENTIONED:
– Iain McGilchrist on TOE:
– Sabine Hossenfelder’s video on AI:
– TED video with Yejin Choi on artificial intelligence:

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Overview of Daniel’s Worldview and Introduction
00:05:13 Nash Equilibrium
00:09:05 Quasiprobability Distributions, Quantum Mechanics, & Wigner
00:13:26 The Metacrisis
00:30:53 Exponential and Unsustainable Economic System
00:54:44 Synopsis so-far
00:58:43 Classifying Different Civilizational Risks
01:22:28 Natural Selection on Altruistic Religions
01:53:16 The “Risk Space” of Ai
02:32:59 Paperclip Maximizer Scenario
02:37:31 “Finitely Describing What’s ‘Good'” is the Alignment Problem
03:37:53 Iain McGilchrist, John Vervaeke, and the Metacrisis
03:42:27 David Bohm’s Connected Consciousness (“Implicate Order”)
03:44:22 Explications on Phenomenal Consciousness (Gregg Henriques)
04:01:34 Geoffrey Hinton, Yejin Choi, and OpenAI on Ai
04:11:33 Daniel’s Message to the Audience

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