Daniel Schmachtenberger: Ai Wars & The Metacrisis

Daniel Schmachtenberger is a social philosopher and founding member of The Consilience Project. Sponsors: - Private Internet Access VPN: Head over to and get yourself an 83% discount AND extra 4 months free. That’s just $ a month! - Brilliant: for 20% off - *New* TOE Merch: - Patreon: - Crypto: - PayPal: - Twitter: - Discord Invite: - iTunes: - Pandora: - Spotify: - Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: 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