Skip to content

Consulting the celestial archives…

TEO

  • Explore

    • Observatory
    • Archive
    • Feed
    • Observers

  • Tools

    • Map
    • Oracle
Enter
TEO
TEO

BYOD: Bring Your Own Discernment · AI-assisted · Eternally in its infancy

About·Pricing·Fork this Knowledge··The Elephant Observatory
Terms·Privacy·Impressum
DS

Daniel Schmachtenberger

24 ideas51 connections

Daniel Schmachtenberger is a social philosopher and civilizational researcher who coined the framing of the "metacrisis" — the convergence of interconnected existential risks including AI, ecological breakdown, and geopolitical instability. Co-founder of the Consilience Project and the Civilization Research Institute, his work focuses on identifying the structural drivers of systemic collapse and developing frameworks for collective sensemaking, epistemic integrity, and civilizational design.

Website ↗

Topics

Systems ThinkingMeta-CrisisCivilizational RiskPolitical PhilosophySensemakingEpistemologyExistential RiskCollective IntelligenceOntological DesignComplexity ScienceGame TheoryAttention EconomyRelevance RealizationPsychologyCognitive ScienceEvolutionary BiologyDevelopmental PsychologyCultural EvolutionEthicsConsciousness Studies

Connected Observers

Jamie Wheal16Zak Stein13Nate Hagens5John Vervaeke4Brendan Graham Dempsey3Iain McGilchrist3

Ideas in the Observatory

  • Addiction Rates as a Proxy for Human AgencyThe quiet surrender of the sovereign soul
    82%
  • The Structural Incompleteness of Optimization MetricsThe light that escapes the metric
    87%
  • Synthesizing Opposing Values for Civilizational StabilityFinding the music between clashing swords
    82%

Links

Website

Stats

24Ideas
51Connections

Topics

Systems ThinkingMeta-CrisisCivilizational RiskPolitical PhilosophySensemakingEpistemology
Psychological Hazards of Existential Risk Work
Saving the world while searching for self
82%
  • Mapping Reality for Meaningful ChoiceTo build on stone, not sand
    82%
  • Three Pillars of a New EnlightenmentThe lighthouse, the mirror, and the bridge.
    82%
  • The Structural Trap of Constant Problem GenerationThe fire that feeds on its own cure
    78%
  • Decoupling Technical Advancement from Human BettermentWhen the metrics hide the casualties
    82%
  • AI Optimization of Global Fossil Fuel ExtractionPolishing the gears of a burning engine
    78%
  • Mandating Safety Proofs for Irreversible TechnologiesThe wreckage offers no lessons to the dead
    82%
  • Competitive Acceleration and AI Governance LagThe lock is turned before the key is found.
    78%
  • AI Acceleration of the Global Economic SuperorganismA turbo button for the blind machine
    82%
  • Validating Local Action During Global CrisisDo not let the vastness hollow you
    82%
  • The Three-by-Three Matrix of Civilizational ResponseNo single thread can hold the weight
    82%
  • Shared Sensemaking as the Foundation for Global ActionTo solve the world, we must see it together.
    87%
  • Escaping the Twin Risks of Catastrophe and DystopiaBetween the abyss and the iron cage
    82%
  • The Structural Tension of Global Coordination SystemsThe cage becomes the beast
    87%
  • Human Nature and the Failure of Developmental ConditioningThe soil remembers what the seed forgot
    78%
  • Exponential Financial Systems within Finite Physical RealitiesA runaway train with no one at the wheel
    87%
  • The Generative Dynamics of Civilizational Self-TerminationTreating the fever while the heart fails
    78%
  • Reclaiming Agency from the Curated Information EnvironmentEscaping the gravity of fascination porn
    82%
  • Design Criteria for a Mature Global CivilizationThe architecture of a species coming of age
    87%
  • Why Economic Profit Ignores True Planetary CostsThe Ledger is Full but the Well is Dry
    78%
  • The Competitive Logic of Technological AccelerationRacing for the crown while the floor dissolves
    82%
    • Existential Risk
    Collective Intelligence
    Ontological Design
    Complexity Science
    Game Theory
    Attention Economy
    Relevance Realization
    Psychology
    Cognitive Science
    Evolutionary Biology
    Developmental Psychology
    Cultural Evolution
    Ethics
    Consciousness Studies

    Connected Observers

    Jamie Wheal16 sharedZak Stein13 sharedNate Hagens5 sharedJohn Vervaeke4 sharedBrendan Graham Dempsey3 sharedIain McGilchrist3 shared
    ← All Observers