Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Artificial Intelligence and The Superorganism”
On this episode, Daniel Schmachtenberger returns to discuss a surprisingly overlooked risk to our global systems and planetary stability: artificial intelligence.
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Power: Chapter 7. The Fate of the Superorganism
Ecologists have been telling us that “small is beautiful” since the 1960s, but trends have gone in just the opposite direction, resulting in the flourishing of the Superorganism. Nobody designed this vast, intricate web of global interconnectedness, and no one can control it.
Review: The Economic Superorganism by Carey W. King
In this aptly titled book, University of Texas research scientist Carey W. King argues that the modern-day global economy is a superorganism.
The economic legacy of the Holocene
We should face reality: The other-than-human-world now has become almost entirely eclipsed by an unassailable “superorganism”—us, the human species—that continues to expand in evermore destructive fashion.
The Economic Superorganism
Will we run into fundamental limits on resources and debt? Or can human ingenuity and technological innovation continue to overcome any limits we encounter?
The Emergence of the Superorganism: Susan Kucera’s Movie “Living in The Future’s Past”
Collecting first into bands, then villages, then cities, then states, now humans form a single, giant creature – the superorganism – which is literally devouring the planet to keep itself growing. I