Daniel schmachtenberger | Ubiquitous Psychopathology

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Great conversation and a lot of gold here. Topics list below.



0:00 Intro

4:45 The importance of seeing reality with as little distortion as possible

7:34 Examples of environmental casualties of industry

8:15 Can we call the thing that we are doing civil?

10:16 The feedback of societal conditioning and adapting to a damaged world

12:47 Where power is concentrated, power is abused

15:05 A look at mechanisms of widespread psychological dysphoria

18:11 Social media’s addictive attention maximizing algorithms

20:45 Hyponormal environments & susceptibility to hypernormal stimuli

24:43 Perverse incentive in media, food industry, pharma, & military

34:44 We are under-responding to very near-term profound risks & global issues

36:25 A fundamentally different conversation than people “catastrophizing”

40:35 A scenario where we have decentralized exponential/catastrophic tech

41:33 The context that can create ubiquitous individual psychopathology

44:02 A way forward; conditioning a virtuous cycle of resilient healthy behavior

54:39 What are the right ethical approaches to macro dynamics?

57:48 Engaging in meaningful connection and problem solving as individuals

1:03:11 Trust and mistrust when information integrity is broken down

1:08:05 In a well world we would not be able to step over a homeless person

1:09:05 An unhealthy relationship with body image and shame

1:11:36 Law, nudity, and victimless crimes

1:18:53 Authentic relationships, a starting point to evolving in healthy ways