THE VIDEO SHELF · existential risk
Daniel Schmachtenberger on The Portal (with host Eric Weinstein), Ep. #027 - On Avoiding Apocalypses
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 HN readers recommended it
Commenters recommend the whole interview as a wide-ranging discussion of existential risk.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Eric Weinstein
- Topic
- existential risk
- Format
- podcast
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
"And I also think you take away responsibility of the viewers if they don't need to be critical about any information." This is exactly the problem currently though - the general population doesn't have either the time or critical thinking developed to understand this. Daniel …
loceng on Hacker News · 2020-04
In YouTube removed a viral video of two doctors calling for an end to quarantineI wish there were more interviews with Daniel Schmachtenberger. His interview on Eric Weinstein’s podcast [0] was also great. [0] [VIDEO]
halfcat on Hacker News · 2020-07
In The world should think better about catastrophic and existential risks
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