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• and how do we make good choices if we don't have good sensemaking well obviously we can't but due to increasing
• inquiry around how do we actually fix our own sensemaking and it's some of what has brought us to have
• so it requires collective intelligence and collective sensemaking but i can't just offload the cognitive
• can't trust that they're actually doing good sensemaking maybe they're doing good sensemaking within a very limited
• good sensemaking maybe they're doing good sensemaking within a very limited context but then the application of that
• means they have to understand what causes failures and sensemaking and then we have to see can we create
• if you if you look at anyone who actually increased the sensemaking capacity of the world you look at any
• maps onto the territory reasonably well because sensemaking means map generation right to be able to make
• particular way which means as a company i want to do sensemaking for you because i want to control your choice
• say kind of valuable thing when you're trying to do sensemaking is to recognize that the signal that you're
• say one of the first things we want to do when we start to do sensemaking is to look at why is anyone sharing what
• then you look at who are they proxying their sensemaking - in most the time they're not even proxying their sense
• actually speaking to the public who were proxying our sensemaking - and we say okay how many steps removed is it and
• and a lot of advantage will occur if i defect on my own sensemaking to a center of the in-group and it's not i
• center of the in-group and it's not i don't trust my own sensemaking so i'd rather be part of an in-group or at
• say i'm pretty sure i have an idea because i proxied my sensemaking to other people that i trusted but i didn't
• magnitude too small so most people have given up on sensemaking about based reality they just have an admitted bit
• that currently exist even though the market is supposed to be a sensemaking mechanism within the context of demand
• selection right that's kind of how we think of markets as a sensemaking system lines of evolutionary theory but
• making system is broken right it's not a good sensemaking system so but as a venture capitalist i can invest in a
• that is a decoupling of scale it's a decoupling of sensemaking and choice making a bunch of things but so for most
• connectedness to what's meaningful so yes giving up on sensemaking there's a is kind of an expression of a type of
• then with the bias is also there maybe it's not that much sensemaking but it's something that's meaningful right so
• together so the debate process is not a good sensemaking process it's a narrative warfare process dialectic is
• people to make sense of the world with some collective sensemaking then i want them to share true information with me
• openly honestly and feel trust in that their sensemaking is gonna be radically curtailed right to what they can just do
• for synergistically higher-order information the cells our sensemaking and they're communicating they're
• each other so they are supporting each other sensemaking in that way they're the lungs obviously do better if the
• of the future we think about that one rebel wisdom is a new sensemaking platform bringing together the most

Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction | Lex Fridman Podcast #191 452,171

• values of and synthesize the sensemaking of all of them simultaneously
• our choices are based on our choice making is based on our sensemaking and our meaning making
• our meaning making our sensemaking is what do we believe is happening in the world
• synthesis of competing ideas and sensemaking which is what we're talking about
• i never want to apply optimism in the sensemaking right i want to just try to be clear if anything i want to
• making requires us being able to have related sensemaking and related meaning making processes

Daniel Schmachtenberger on The Portal (with host Eric Weinstein), Ep. #027 - On Avoiding Apocalypses 350,722

• of tool-making and the nature of collective sensemaking in choice making type dynamics okay and but to start to
• and i share a failure a catastrophic failure of communal sensemaking right so what i've claimed is is that the
• paperclip maximizer because it explains why we don't have communal sensemaking if instead of thinking about an
• and so the the reason i'm bringing this up in terms of collective sensemaking is those who do the will of capitalism
• it not because i have no ideas why we don't have communal sensemaking what i'm confused by is why we are not more
• situation whereby there is no communal sensemaking there is a gated institutional narrative it seems to be
• figure that out so one point is the sensemaking is actually hard you have a situation in which a lot of these things
• in 2001 and we see that the the whole sensemaking apparatus is breaking down from the trump election so these have
• omni positive kind of choice making well i have to have a sensemaking system that can factor things like
• be sufficient on its own but it's necessary better sensemaking systems where we can actually solve problems
• where i'm saying the dunbar number was both care and sensemaking it was a limit on both you know our values
• limit on both you know our values generation right and our sensemaking to inform choice making so if we want
• both collective values generation and collective sensemaking down the conditioning gives us ways to start to

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• not uh defect on your own sensemaking into premature certainty that creates
• communicate effectively to have shared sensemaking as a basis for shared choice making the
• of the people at culture and that collective sensemaking and collective good faith dialogue
• we're going to vote on the proposition having never done any sensemaking about what a good proposition would be
• and good quality dialogue with other people that are also sensemaking to emerge to a collective consciousness and

Neurohackers Advice on What We Must Do to Stop the End of Civilization | Daniel Schmachtenberger 179,233

• sense make well which is why controlling people sensemaking is the heart of the war that's happening and the forces that
• someone's capacity to make their own good sensemaking their own good decisions and whereas to the degree that
• would warn me against us but thank you for being a part of my sensemaking apparatus i will not take you literally

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• those people can start to have the kinds of conversations to share sensemaking that leads to being able to make
• right the antecedents of choice making is collective sensemaking collective meaning making and collective
• conversation collective sensemaking of what's actually going on
• better job of meeting these and can we use some collective sensemaking for collective design well it's like
• actually a rational actor doing really good sensemaking that has the info to compare what a
• that's actually a general kind of principle of sensemaking is uh the saying by charles kettering if
• so um to try to understand the problem of the breakdown and sensemaking a little more so we can think about
• today how to fix collective sensemaking is a big hard topic
• for the listeners what can you do for better sensemaking well one thing is
• you're not moving towards real shared sensemaking and coordination that's one thing i would say this
• talked about this you've had other whole videos on sensemaking practices but these are a few basic things
• we're hoping that you trust your own sensemaking progressively better and we're showing you in detail
• we're showing you in detail transparently how we do our sensemaking so
• where they can see the epistemic process the sensemaking process we used to come up with that so what things did we read
• with progressively deeper capacities to learn sensemaking and epistemology and the kinds of background necessary to
• hard to find people who can do this because like to do the core sensemaking work
• analysis and then synthesis on it the decentralized sensemaking is something that we want to
• influence the spaces they're in to be able to do better sensemaking often times the people who have best
• often times the people who have best sensemaking are also employed by the people who are in top institutional
• have worked on machine deep learning types of technologies for sensemaking those are the kinds of
• more consequential choices with worse and worse sensemaking to inform those choices
• eight-week online course sensemaking 101 with daniel schmacktenberger

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• really fundamental to being able to do sensemaking and i think what we're wanting to talk about here is the next
• occurring to again further inoculate their sensemaking against distortion and also recognize when they are a
• or an insight or a cognitive or an epistemic tool or like a sensemaking or frameworks kind of process or
• engage in earnest and in good faith with others to share sensemaking towards being able to make better choices to
• film about a more ethical and more grounded and more truthful sensemaking but even that language itself can be
• people's psychology or cognitive tools tools for sensemaking or communication tools right tools to be able to create
• that is our whole goal here is how to have the type of sensemaking that is necessary to rightly steward the level
• an example where it's like no better sensemaking actually has to happen and even facts lots of times the facts are
• everyone increasing the quality of their sensemaking to find solutions that aren't war because to find solutions
• lazy thing of just defecting to the sensemaking that someone else that you hold as legitimate authority gave you
• that it's really impossible to do good sensemaking or to orient towards truth unless we're prepared to disagree with
• profound commitment to earnestness in our sensemaking which means that the enemy of that is bias of any kind and
• of war and so you want to engage in the kind of good sensemaking that could inform that then you might be against
• it has epistemic how do we do better sensemaking those epistemic scan be weaponized and we can talk about how
• information and coordinate better i eat to share sensemaking i went and i saw where the predator was or where the
• come back and share so the ability for the people to share their sensemaking and then to be able to coordinate that
• simply embrace not confidence but give up on sensemaking i got no idea what the going on and playing video
• and problems attendant of them rebel wisdom is a new sensemaking platform bringing together the most rebellious

'Humanity's Phase Shift', Daniel Schmachtenberger 112,581

• influence media to control people's sensemaking frameworks in the way it will influence governance again this is
• that they think is important based on their limited sensemaking that is never everything that proposition because it
• people actually don't all get to contribute to the sensemaking of what a good proposition would be there's no
• everybody so individual and collective sensemaking in choice making process an individual is necessary but it's not

Making Sense of the Downward Spiral, Daniel Schmachtenberger 110,905

• alternate narrative that appeals to their sensemaking desire to not have uncertainty and put the pieces together
• drive conflict between them which both creates a sense of clear sensemaking of i know who my team is i know what my
• own they think they're doing a good job sensemaking and they don't realize that as they're researching of the trillions
• about where i want to put more of my sensemaking into that area because i might actually have some agency in that
• making space for grief so emotions of all kind can influence our sensemaking they can also influence our choice
• one whole type of information one whole way of sensemaking and turning it off and you could call emotion um this is

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• create a higher form of collective intelligence and sensemaking now what and how so the answer now what is
• create a higher form of collective intelligence and sensemaking and what i've been seeing lately paying attention
• so i think that's what we're really interested in collective sensemaking is how do we come together in relationship
• make sense of as much information and sensemaking as we can together that feels sort of secular humanist rational
• would take somebody who loads and runs cognitive science as a sensemaking framework and make them go okay that
• talk about how would we have a kind of coherence of collective sensemaking and collective choice making at scale well
• parallel and series right it's like both those everybody sensemaking can be heard and then choice making can factor
• heard and then choice making can factor everybody sensemaking but if i met thousands of people there's no way to
• some people were doing choice making not informed by the sensemaking of the whole and now you get diminishing
• and the eyes together give me a different kind of sensemaking in 3-space so we are mr. potato head so if
• not the sense so you're actually going from sensemaking into insight which is very different meanings you're sort of
• risk context we have to change that so there's like not just a new sensemaking and culture and experience but also new
• let's take this and make this practical in the context of sensemaking in the world we live in right now almost
• that typically goes under the heading of sensemaking is worse than useless so any newspaper any news program pretty
• overstating or whatever it's yeah it's a mess so game a has a sensemaking architecture
• because you're actually disempowering the sensemaking of others in the process and to really be tuned into as
• know honour information ecology for the enhanced sensemaking of all - the folks will do the multiplayer polar trap grab
• i said the inverse is and the current sensemaking environment i have an expectation that i should simultaneously
• momentary coherence momentary transpersonal sensemaking and be in in the in the mud with each other
• be and do at greater depth rebel wisdom is a new sensemaking platform bringing together the most