In this second episode of the Portal to be released during shelter-in-place restrictions during the Corona Virus Pandemic, we release an older discussion with Daniel Schmachtenberger on whether there is any plausible long term scenario for human flourishing confined to a single shared planet.
Daniel is seen as a leader of the growing Game B subculture of the human potential movement. This group bets that there is a second evolutionary stable strategy for cohabiting not based on conflict or rivalry, even for life raised in Game A (i.e. standard evolutionary and economic environments based on scarcity and rivalrous goods. Eric asks Daniel about where the bright spots and progress might be in this movement which refuses to accept the fate that that Eric has elsewhere put forward as the Twin Nuclei Problem of having unlocked the power of both Cell and Atom in the early 1950s without the wisdom to use it.
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Table of contents
00:00:20 - Covid and DISC
00:14:00 - Daniel Schmachtenberger
00:18:27 - System validity gain vs. loss as a distributed local criteria for response.
23:50 - Source code of psychology
35:20:00 - Exponential tech (CRISPR, Mores Law, Genetic engineering )
38:10:00 - Solving problems with violence
41:00:00 - Inverse correlation between rational and emotional function
45:00:00 - Motivation for misinformation
46:50:00 - Russel conjugation (limbic stimulation)
56:15:00 - Short term behavior
58:00:00 - Solving for multipolar traps
1:15:10 - Magical thinking, the false safety experience and group think
1:17:11 - The importance of life experience
1:19:06 - The EU is a trap
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Triage is the process of determining the priority of patients' treatments based on the severity of their condition or likelihood of recovery with and without treatment.
A gene drive is a genetic engineering technology that propagates a particular suite of genes throughout a population by altering the probability that a specific allele will be transmitted to offspring from the natural 50% probability.
Tristan Harris, founder of time well spent and the center for humane technology