Saving Civilization Healthcare Tech Democracy wDaniel Schmachtenberger

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Daniel Schmachtenberger studies existential risk. Here's how we might thread an Alt-Middle way to a civilization whose tech, healthcare, social structures, and built environment promote wellbeing rather than divisional apocalypse. • Video and transcript (timecodes shortly): https://zdoggmd.com/daniel-schmachten... • About Daniel: https://civilizationemerging.com/about/ • Daniel's Consilience Project: https://consilienceproject.org/ • Our podcast, videos, website, social media, and email contact: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd • Support our show with a 1-time PayPal donation or join our monthly subscriber group for exclusive live content and early releases: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters • 00:00 Intro • 01:11 Humans as apex predators in every environment, enabled by technology • 05:19 Paleolithic brains with tech that hacks dopamine reward circuits, hypernormal stimuli (porn, sugar, social media) • 11:06 Polyamorous societies vs. monogamous societies, closing the “asshole” niche • 18:00 Conservative vs. liberal moral intuitions, healthy and unhealthy reward circuits, the marshmallow study, limbic hijack in social media • 26:28 The concept of hormesis (how systems increase capacity in response to stress) • 30:45 Capitalism the economics of addiction with regards to social media • 38:36 Autopoietic (self-replicating) tech, externalized costs, and catastrophic risk • 43:04 Public sensemaking in the age of screens and expert specialization, the role of “steelmanning” in debates • 49:41 Education sense making as central to function democracy • 55:01 Naive, Cynical, Post-cynical stances in discourse • 1:04:41 The epidemic of subclinical mental illness in modern civilization • 1:23:09 Existential threat to democracy, why China has an advantage, natural tech monopolies bigger than nation-states • 1:37:22 Environmental psychology/broken windows theorem, the effect of the plow on civilization • 1:48:55 Building tech optimized to better social values • 1:53:56 Internalizing externalities, social tech like sweat lodges • 2:05:17 Left brain vs right brain, spirituality vs reductionism, dealing with human conflict • 2:12:36 These concepts applied to healthcare (environmental effect, sense making, reductionism, the complexity of autoimmune disease, Pharma) • 2:21:29 The future of healthcare (toward an integral model of Health 3.0), hospitals as temples • 2:26:42 The future of democratic systems, AI, and optimistic vision for the future

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