Daniel Schmachtenberger

Daniel Schmachtenberger is a well known figure in the field of long term civilization design. He is committed to developing better collective capacities for sense-making and meaning-making, to inform higher quality choice-making, in order to achieve a world that aligns with our higher values and potentials. Daniel has an extensive background in natural sciences, social sciences, and philosophy with an emphasis in the epistemics needed to approach ‘wicked’ problems, and the ethical considerations required to inform the design criteria for adequate solutions. He has participated in projects to survey the landscape of existential and catastrophic risks, advance forecasting and mitigation strategies, and develop capacities for multi-agent coordination. Associated work has been done to synthesize and advance civilizational collapse and institutional decay models to identify the social architectures that give rise to coordination failures, and has identified a finite set of generator functions. Categorical solutions to those generator functions would solve for the causes of collapse, which could result in a new and robust civilizational model with enduring antifragility in the presence of decentralized exponential technology. Daniel’s mission and focus is to advance those models for long term viability, along with the capacities for sense-making, design, and coordination needed to support necessary transitional and protective work, to achieve a world commensurate with our higher values and potentials. He co-founded The Consilience Project and previously worked as a researcher at Civilization Emerging, co-founder at Neurohacker Collective, founder at Critical Path Global, director of research and development at Strategic Global Solutions, and dean of academics at Body Mind College. To contact Daniel, send him a message via Facebook or email him at daniel@civilizationresearch.org. Please note that he rarely logs on here and please do not send unsolicited professional offers.