Daniel schmachtenberger | Ubiquitous Psychopathology
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Joined: 6 Feb 2005
Age: 44
Gender: Male
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Great conversation and a lot of gold here. Topics list below.
0:00 Intro
4:45 The importance of seeing reality with as little distortion as possible
7:34 Examples of environmental casualties of industry
8:15 Can we call the thing that we are doing civil?
10:16 The feedback of societal conditioning and adapting to a damaged world
12:47 Where power is concentrated, power is abused
15:05 A look at mechanisms of widespread psychological dysphoria
18:11 Social media’s addictive attention maximizing algorithms
20:45 Hyponormal environments & susceptibility to hypernormal stimuli
24:43 Perverse incentive in media, food industry, pharma, & military
34:44 We are under-responding to very near-term profound risks & global issues
36:25 A fundamentally different conversation than people “catastrophizing”
40:35 A scenario where we have decentralized exponential/catastrophic tech
41:33 The context that can create ubiquitous individual psychopathology
44:02 A way forward; conditioning a virtuous cycle of resilient healthy behavior
54:39 What are the right ethical approaches to macro dynamics?
57:48 Engaging in meaningful connection and problem solving as individuals
1:03:11 Trust and mistrust when information integrity is broken down
1:08:05 In a well world we would not be able to step over a homeless person
1:09:05 An unhealthy relationship with body image and shame
1:11:36 Law, nudity, and victimless crimes
1:18:53 Authentic relationships, a starting point to evolving in healthy ways
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