Hello friends, welcome back to the show.

My guest today is Daniel Schmacktemberger.

He's a founding member of the Consilience Project and works in preventing global catastrophic

risk.

Having accurate sense-making is a superpower in the 21st century.

As the volume of information we need to sort through increases, the ability to distinguish

signal from noise becomes ever more important.

Given this, I wanted to ask Daniel exactly how he would advise someone to become an adept

sense-maker.

So today, expect to learn the characteristics that a good sense-making agent should have.

While the relationship between sense, meaning and choice-making is so crucial, whether

Daniel thinks that humanity is too emotional to reach our full potential, at what stage

of personal actualisation we should begin to help the world and much more.

If you're not familiar with Daniel, then today is a little bit of a change of pace.

It's a very considered, very patient conversation.

We're talking about incredibly deep, difficult topics here.

What does it mean to communicate and coordinate in a modern era when we have ancient programming?

How should we contribute to the world at large and the best way that we can?

These aren't simple questions to answer.

To be honest, after I have a conversation like this, I feel moderately exhausted afterward.

But it's incredibly worthwhile.

I love talking to Daniel.

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