[Unedited] A Problem Well-Stated is Half-Solved — with Daniel Schmachtenberger
Your Undivided Attention
2021/06/25
[Unedited] A Problem Well-Stated is Half-Solved — with Daniel Schmachtenberger
[Unedited] A Problem Well-Stated is Half-Solved — with Daniel Schmachtenberger

Your Undivided Attention
2021/06/25
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We’ve explored many different problems on Your Undivided Attention — addiction, disinformation, polarization, climate change, and more. But what if many of these problems are actually symptoms of the same meta-problem, or meta-crisis? And what if a key lev...
Highlights
Highlights
This podcast explores the idea that many of our most pressing global problems, from climate change to political polarization, are not separate issues but symptoms of a deeper, interconnected meta-crisis. The conversation delves into how our current systems of governance and economics are failing to keep pace with exponential technologies, creating a race to the bottom that threatens our collective future. The guest proposes a radical new framework for global coordination to address these existential challenges.
Chapters
Chapters
Are Our Biggest Problems Just Symptoms of a Single Meta-Crisis?
00:00Why Solving One Crisis in Isolation is Impossible and Makes Things Worse
06:31How the Attention Economy and AI Create a Race to the Bottom
15:20Why Old Solutions Like Mutually Assured Destruction No Longer Work
27:20Are Democracy and the Fourth Estate Obsolete in a Digital World?
42:20Can We Use Exponential Tech to Build a Smarter, More Transparent Future?
1:15:46Transcript
Transcript
Tristan Harris: Hi, everyone. It's Tristan, and this is your undivided attention. Up next, we have our unedited conversation with Daniel Schmachtenberger. And because it's unedited, it's longer and not corrected for fact-checking purposes, but you can find...