Consilience Project

31/07/2024

We just published a new article exploring the narrative of progress, where the current narrative falls catastrophically short, what authentic progress would entail and require, and specific suggestions for how it could be realized.

Our background narratives about progress can play a profound role in creating the biases that shape our assessments of new technologies and where the world is headed.

We are not throwing out the idea of progress here, but exploring what a full definition of progress would involve, in service of making that real.

Its long, more like a short book than an article, but an important topic for anyone who cares about the future.

The concept of progress is at the heart of humanity’s story. From the present, it is possible to imagine a future of abundance in which our great challenges have been addressed by the unique human ability to modify the universe toward our own ends. Many believe that we will attain this future thro...

26/10/2022

In a time when deep change is needed globally, Daniel Schmachtenberger and Nora Bateson are often invited into discussions of how to meet the big problems hu...

25/10/2022

Daniel recently visited the House Stockholm to discuss the Meta-crisis and how we survive it.

Norrsken Sessions l Daniel Schmachtenberger

The Meta-crisis and how we survive it.On October 20th, 2022, Daniel Schmachtenberger visited Norrsken House Stockholm for a one-off talk, moderated by Sara K...

23/09/2022

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30/06/2022

How should we design technologies that in turn shape our minds?

26/06/2022

This week, we published a critical piece to explain how technology shapes human values and the implications for a future that will include AI, automation, and virtual reality. We stand on the brink of a range of possible outcomes. How we plan for the deeper impacts of tech will determine the kind of future we create.

How should we design technologies that in turn shape our minds?

08/06/2022

Zak Stein joined Peter Limburg on the Stoa to discuss Bad Faith Communication strategies and ways they are weaponized in today's information ecosystem.

June 6th, 2022The Consilience Project (https://consilienceproject.org) visits The Stoa! This potential ongoing series will require participants to read a pie...

03/06/2022

We play with a fable, that might become Story if enough people and place can work on it, with Daniel Schmachtenberger, founding member of The Consilience Project. https://consilienceproject.org/ Daniel is a thinker/doer who works on catastrophic and existential risk, civilization and institutional d...

02/06/2022

Villainization: a common strategy that decreases one's faith in the ability to participate in objective discourse.

Source: "The Endgames of Bad Faith Communication" https://consilienceproject.org/endgames-of-bad-communication/

31/05/2022

Daniel joined Nate Hagen's podcast "The Great Simplification" this week to discuss part II of their conversation on Maximum Power & Hyper Agents.

Here is Part 2 in a series of conversations with my friend Daniel Schmachtenberger. It's great to learn in real time with someone looking at the challenge ou...

27/05/2022

25/05/2022

A common strategy of Bad Faith Communication.

23/02/2022

In our latest feature, we seek to describe how bad faith communication has become normalized, and the risks this poses to democracies.

Societies decline into violence when mutual distrust and disrespect continually undermine any possibility of mutual understanding.

Therefore, we must seek to restore faith in the power of those forms of communication that allow us to change positions, learn, and improve our thinking and coordinated action around essential shared realities.

Reversing the downward spiral of mutual distrust.

11/02/2022

Consilience Project co-founder, Daniel Schmachtenberger joined Dr. Zubin Damania on his ZDoggMD podcast to discuss "how we might thread an Alt-Middle way to a civilization whose tech, healthcare, social structures, and built environment promote wellbeing rather than a divisional apocalypse."

Daniel Schmactenberger studies existential risk. Here's how we might thread an Alt-Middle way to a civilization whose tech, healthcare, social structures, an...

30/01/2022

"Facts become weapons for use in politically charged discourses in which winning is more important than accurately representing larger and more complex truths."

In our latest feature, we seek to describe the crucial nexus that digital technologies, education, and politics play and how they can be reconfigured to allow for widespread learning and mutual understanding.

When is telling the truth a means of deception?

22/01/2022

Limbic hijack title aside, the below excerpt from Joe Rogan's podcast features Daniel Schmachtenberger and Tristan Harris' critical discussion around the inevitability of general intelligence AI and ideas around tempering its catastrophic risk.

In today's video we look at Joe Rogan - (URGENT!) "I Tried To WARN YOU" It's Already HERE!!Subscribe for the latest news On Dr. Jordan Peterson and a Host ...

20/01/2022

Co-Founder of The Consilience Project, Zak Stein, joined
Vance Crow's podcast to discuss the difference between propaganda and education. For a deeper look at the topic, we've attached several TCP features in the comments.

Zak Stein is an expert in psychology and philosophy, and previously a Co-Founder at Lectica Inc. His expertise is in how people learn. He sat down with Vance...

19/01/2022

Co-Founder of TCP Daniel Schmachtenberger joined Peter Limberg, Jim Rutt, Jordan Hall, and Tyson Yunkaporta, at the Stoa to discuss Game B and the nature of art.

January 17th, 2021This will be a dialogos followed the premiere of the short film called An Initiation to Game B: https://youtu.be/E_cyCuCKQhsJim Rutt, Jorda...