Category:Existential Risk
New research project, started April 2023
Quotes
Short Quotes
Daniel Schmachtenberger
“If you’re scaling towards the power of gods, then you have to have the wisdom and the love of gods, or you’ll self destruct.”
“The real existential risk is a loss of the ability to make sense of the world around us: what is worth doing, and what the likely effects of things will be”
“We do have an innate impulse towards agency, towards self actualization. Within a win-lose game structure, that will look like a competitive impulse. But within a win-win structure, that will look like the desire to go beyond my previous capacity.”
– Daniel Schmachtenberger [1]
Long Quotes
"We address two distinct forms of existential risk:
The death of humanity and the death of our humanity.
1) The first form of existential risk is how the term is usually understood: existential risk as the death of the human species. And extinction or near-extinction event. Catastrophic risk refers to events that will cause the death or extreme suffering of large segments of humanity.
2) The second form of existential risk is equally threatening, but more insidious. The death of our humanity might be caused, for example, by a pervasive, digitally mediated environment, based on the lowest common denominator of the human experience, which effectively generates degraded humans without any genuine free will, personhood, or dignity. Protecting and preserving the value of personhood, therefore, must animate efforts to avert the death of our humanity."
- David J. Temple, CosmoErotic Humanism
Pages in category "Existential Risk"
The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total.
B
C
D
- Daniel Schmachtenberger on Artificial Intelligence and the Superorganism
- Daniel Schmachtenberger on Designing Post-Capitalist Systems To Manage Existential Risk
- Daniel Schmachtenberger on Solving The Generator Functions of Existential Risks
- Daniel Schmachtenberger on the Dark Sides of Progress
- Daniel Schmachtenberger on the Evolution of the Organizational Structures of Civilization and the Role of Hyper-Agents