Super cogent points on issues of managing spaceship earth – Dan Schmachtenberger [video]

complex topics and situations articulated very well. how are we engineers, thinkers, and scientists to coordinate in this day in age, outside of the realm of money (making monetary profit should NOT be a priority at all), to bring about a balanced relationship of energy interaction with the environment within which we happen to be embedded? highly recommend checking it out.

here are some of my favorite bits: "you can think of the global market as a misaligned super-intelligence, that is already misaligned with planetary wellbeing and humans that is running on all the humans while also running all the humans that also uses all the computer and all the other technology and that is building all of the narrow AIs in its own service. "

"the fact that we are the major geologic force shaping the surface of the planet at this time and the anthropocene that's a lot of fucking power that we have from our intelligence. to think through 'what would it mean for our species to be wise enough to steward that power safely? what kind of civilization ... [is] necessary to be able to steward the power of synthetic bio, AI, nuclear tech, globalized supply chain industrial tech?'."

"he's like 'daniel, everything in DC is rotating doors.' and i'm like 'i know; that's why we're going to go extinct' and he got so frustrated, said 'you're being unrealistic, cause this is how regulation and the world works' and i'm like 'you're being unrealistic; you're pretending that the biosphere can continue to exist' and the issue is that he was grounded in the reality of human history as it has been so far and i was trying to ground in physics and biology cause we don't get to change those in the same ways and the two aren't compatible, so i have to be unrealistic to history as it has been so far if i want to be able to think about how to make a human technological civilization [that is] compatible with the biosphere ... "