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Daniel Schmachtenberger on The Portal (with host Eric Weinstein), Ep. #027 - On Avoiding Apocalypses

Eric Weinstein · podcast · Watch on YouTube

AI safety, AGI & impactFuturism & technology and society

What it is

A long conversation between Eric Weinstein and Daniel Schmachtenberger on whether humanity can flourish long term on a single planet, introducing the Game A versus Game B framing. It covers catastrophic risk and alternatives to rivalrous systems.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Commenters recommend the whole interview as a wide-ranging discussion of existential risk.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “I'd highly recommend watching the whole interview”

    Whole interview recommended; timestamped link given.

    loceng, 2020-04 · Recommendation · in “YouTube removed a viral video of two doctors calling for an end to quarantine”

  2. “was also great”

    Interview with Schmachtenberger on a podcast.

    halfcat, 2020-07 · Recommendation · in “The world should think better about catastrophic and existential risks”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: game b, catastrophic risk, civilization, schmachtenberger, weinstein

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