Recorded October 2 2023
Description
In this Frankly, Nate refers to a favorite timeless book series, “The Lord of the Rings”, to describe ‘the nine rings for mortal men’ -evolutionary behavioral tendencies that are common among humans but become counterproductive within the context of our modern culture. These traits combine to drive the growth of the Superorganism -but they are pulled forward by the ‘one ring to rule them all’, which today is the positive feedbacks of power resulting from the synergy of agricultural surplus, fossil energy, money, and now Artificial Intelligence accelerating it all. Can this out of control power dynamic be broken and redirected away from the influence of this “One Ring”? How do we strategize and prepare for the future given this cultural compulsion to amass power as we approach the Great Simplification? Can ‘wisdom’ counter intelligence?
Show Notes
00:00 – Lord of the Rings
02:27 – Humans are predators
03:03 – Dopamine and motivation
04:08 – Loss Aversion
05:45 – In-group/Out-group dynamics
06:28 – Discount Rate
07:03 – Populism, Consensus Trance
07:52 – Humans avoid uncertainty
08:49 – The Oil Drum
10:30 – Anthropocentrism
13:30 – Superorganism
13:44 – Moloch, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Liv Boeree
16:45 – Tristan Harris + TGS Episode
