The Dark Side of Conscious Ai | Daniel Schmachtenberger

Daniel Schmachtenberger is a social philosopher and founding member of The Consilience Project, talks about the metacrisis / nukes / Ai / consciousness. Sponsors:

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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

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Timestamps and Sponsors:
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

[idxerr]

I love how Daniel is able to use profanity in a way that somehow feels technically and scientifically precise.

[isnisse]

A shame that most youtubers put out lazy informative clickbaity souless content. Videos such as these, with long formats that respect the art of having a true pleasing dialogue, along with educational content, and well research topics are a true gift. I hope this channel makes enough to stay afloat. Knowledge is power, stay awesome, thanks Curt.

[thymethought]

Thank you Curt, this was an incredible start to Season 3. Thank you for the work, thought, and genuine good nature you imbue everyone of your dialogs with. Your hard work shows.

[zpettigrew]

This may be the best conversation/presentation anyone has done with Daniel Schmachtenberger I have seen. Well edited, broken down, with the right amount of time to fully explore these important subjects. Bravo. Very well done.

[jordan]

This was one of the best AI alignment podcasts to date. Daniel is excellent at explaining complicated topics carefully and responding to difficult questions. I think Curt regularly surprised Dan with nuanced questions as well. Daniel may be relatively new to the alignment field compared to founders, but his ability to communicate effectively makes him ideal to continue to become a public AI safety expert. Thank you both ❤

[girlplanetboy]

Haven’t watch a TOE video for about a year, so not only am I super impressed with Curt’s new format, I am happy to see him utilise all his craft in making TOE 3.0 the benchmark for these types of shows. Congrats Curt.

[nipsonanomimata]

So happy this channel has reached an inflection point. Joscha, Levin, Daniel, Wolfram... a symposium we don't deserve, but need so very much!
Generalists are *it*. You provide what academia lacks. It is a gift and a burden. And certainly something to be proud of.
Thank you Curt.

[centurionstrengthandfitnes]

This was outstanding. I've heard Daniel express these ideas and observations before, but it was a joy to get to see him express himself so relatively unconstrained by time.

[dvprater]

Kurt, I would love to take the time to write a more thorough message for you, and at some point I will. For now, I'll just say that the way your show has bridged physics, philosophy, and spirituality is perfectly in alginment with what I've been doing on my own for the last 20 years. It's so refreshing to see someone with your background and skill and comittment publish these interveiws. I love what you're doing with the thrid season - this change in format, while I'm sure it has drastically ramped up your production time and cost, is a HUGE deal, and it's particularly useful when presenting complex topics like your show does. Finally, Daniel Schmachtenberger is probably my favorite living "thinker". The work he's doing, the scope of his thought, the questions he asks and the conclusions he reaches are without peer. His work is incredibly important. The world needs him. Thank you for bringing him here, and for giving this interview the time and attention it needed to make this very important material accessible for everyone who finds it. Looking forward to seeing what's next.

[teiuq]

I requested him in your discord a long time ago. Thank you!
You made such a good job of letting him expand on his perspectives and really presenting where he is coming from.
Simply great!

[WhatEver-xnsn]

Wow what an ending. That life advice was way more powerful than I was expecting. I've seen such questions asked on many podcasts, but nothing compared to his answer. Thank you Curt... thank you Daniel. You guys are awesome. Much love!

[lilfrnkie]

Congratulations on season 3 Curt!! Proud to be here from (almost) the beginning, and hopefully many more. Been waiting on this interview with Daniel for awhile now. Cheers!

[Weston]

Daniel Schmachtenberger is a wizard. I'm certainly glad to see this!

[breadbowlpasta]

You're killing it, Curt. Thank you for this

[Deciphering_Life]

Thank you Kurt!!, I often wonder how Daniel is capable of knowing what he knows and managing to smile naturally.
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know" --- Ernest Hemingway

[madhavshroff]

That intro gave me chills. Hell yes. Revved up for season 3. Let’s goo

[jennysteves]

A great first episode for season 3!
Much of this is way over my head, but I always love gleaning whatever level of understanding I can from Daniel Schmachtenberger’s vast stores of knowledge and deep wisdom. He is an unusual and kind soul.
Thank you, Curt, for your summaries, added clips and explanations. Slowly learning here ..

[Shnikey]

I just love and appreciate how much thoughtfulness you put into producing this podcast in a way that we all love what we learn. You are also really great at normalizing the learning process, in that it often takes repeat exposure to certain concepts before fully grasping. So well done. Thank you, Curt and now that you’ve grown your operation, I can also say thank you to the ToE team!! 😊

[andrearobinson]

Wow. Okay, this took me 5 nights to watch, but halfway through I shared it on social. For decades I've been working in a self-created hybrid model of holistic organization solutions, human wellness, intentionality and how combining these disrupts old patterns as well as builds a new sort of architecture in individual lives. I see the 'meta' issues very synonymous with micro human issues. Words Daniel uses like alignment, synergistic, values, intention, super-structure, infrastructure and of course all the beautiful things he said in his final clip - made me feel less alien and more 'on track' w/ the sort of strange and unique work I've been doing & refining. I'm piecing together the model & methods I've created in order to effectively share my theories and findings on space, balance, simplicity all of which help people 'access' new terrain. The parts of me which have been either lonely or undernourished in the philosophical and omni-structural spaces have had a good soaking from this comprehensive and intelligent video. Though many of the words used were way above my education level, I found myself nodding and hear my mouth humming, uh huh, yep, uh huh. I will let all this feed my work, art and life. Thank You, Sincerely.