https://overcast.fm/+AA2tlXMwOGM
This is a really interesting interview discussing the potential issues of “AI” reliance…
#TheGreatSimplification
#TheGreatSimplification
"The Loneliness Crisis, Cognitive Atrophy, and Other Personal Dangers of AI" | RR 20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDyczqzjico
> (Conversation recorded on October 14th, 2025) Mainstream conversations about artificial intelligence tend to center around the technology’s economic and large-scale impacts. Yet it’s at the individual level where we’re seeing AI’s most potent effects, and they may not be what you think. Even in the limited time that AI chatbots have been publicly available (like Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc.), studies show that our increasing reliance on them wears down our ability to think and communicate effectively, and even erodes our capacity to nurture healthy attachments to others. In essence, AI is atrophying the skills that sit at the core of what it means to be human. Can we as a society pause to consider the risks this technology poses to our well-being, or will we keep barreling forward with its development until it’s too late?
> In this episode, Nate is joined by Nora Bateson and Zak Stein to explore the multifaceted ways that AI is designed to exploit our deepest social vulnerabilities, and the risks this poses to human relationships, cognition, and society. They emphasize the need for careful consideration of how technology shapes our lives and what it means for the future of human connection. Ultimately, they advocate for a deeper engagement with the embodied aspects of living alongside other people and nature as a way to counteract our increasingly digital world.
> What can we learn from past mass adaptation of technologies such as the invention of the world wide web or GPS when it comes to AI’s increasing presence in our lives? How does artificial intelligence expose and intensify the ways our culture is already eroding our mental health and capacity for human connection? And lastly, how might we imagine futures where technology magnifies the best sides of humanity – like creativity, cooperation, and care – rather than accelerating our most destructive instincts?
I know it's a YouTube video, but in such cases I recommend making an exception and watching them. I think these kind of conversations should happen mucho more, and be much more public, but of course, companies like Google are not at all interested in that, all the contrary. Nate Hagens continues to bring such an amazing array of diverse and interesting people (interesting because I think they bring very important messages, from many fields of knowledge and wisdom).
#TheGreatSimplification #RealityRoundtable #AI #AIDangers #NateHagens #NoraBateson #ZackStein #Collapse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDyczqzjico
> (Conversation recorded on October 14th, 2025) Mainstream conversations about artificial intelligence tend to center around the technology’s economic and large-scale impacts. Yet it’s at the individual level where we’re seeing AI’s most potent effects, and they may not be what you think. Even in the limited time that AI chatbots have been publicly available (like Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc.), studies show that our increasing reliance on them wears down our ability to think and communicate effectively, and even erodes our capacity to nurture healthy attachments to others. In essence, AI is atrophying the skills that sit at the core of what it means to be human. Can we as a society pause to consider the risks this technology poses to our well-being, or will we keep barreling forward with its development until it’s too late?
> In this episode, Nate is joined by Nora Bateson and Zak Stein to explore the multifaceted ways that AI is designed to exploit our deepest social vulnerabilities, and the risks this poses to human relationships, cognition, and society. They emphasize the need for careful consideration of how technology shapes our lives and what it means for the future of human connection. Ultimately, they advocate for a deeper engagement with the embodied aspects of living alongside other people and nature as a way to counteract our increasingly digital world.
> What can we learn from past mass adaptation of technologies such as the invention of the world wide web or GPS when it comes to AI’s increasing presence in our lives? How does artificial intelligence expose and intensify the ways our culture is already eroding our mental health and capacity for human connection? And lastly, how might we imagine futures where technology magnifies the best sides of humanity – like creativity, cooperation, and care – rather than accelerating our most destructive instincts?
I know it's a YouTube video, but in such cases I recommend making an exception and watching them. I think these kind of conversations should happen mucho more, and be much more public, but of course, companies like Google are not at all interested in that, all the contrary. Nate Hagens continues to bring such an amazing array of diverse and interesting people (interesting because I think they bring very important messages, from many fields of knowledge and wisdom).
#TheGreatSimplification #RealityRoundtable #AI #AIDangers #NateHagens #NoraBateson #ZackStein #Collapse
If you have some time to correct someone wrong on the internet, @emilymbender (who doesn't? 😏 ) please comment under this Nate Hagens Frankly episode... He's a good guy, generally right on everything, macroeconomic, societal, environmental, etc.. but on LLMs... boy, he drank the Wall Street coolaid. Sad.
PS: I suggested he contact you 😏
"Why Humanity Is Better Than We Think" | Frankly 108
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ePY2MQ3-Q
> In this week’s Frankly, Nate reflects on intraspecies predation (ours) and the impact psychopathic actors have on the mean and median of human behavior – in the past all the way up to our modern society. Human evolution was shaped by both cooperative, pro-social behavior and a competitive, predatory approach for survival – resulting in a balanced distribution for most of humanity’s existence.
I highly recommend watching this "Frankly" from Nate Hagens. For everyone, but especially for those who think Humanity is doomed or should disappear. Where we are now is far from our actual baseline, which is much more cooperative and friendly. We are not the individualistic profit maximisers that we are mostly told we are.
#TheGreatSimplification #NateHagens #Frankly #psycopathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ePY2MQ3-Q
> In this week’s Frankly, Nate reflects on intraspecies predation (ours) and the impact psychopathic actors have on the mean and median of human behavior – in the past all the way up to our modern society. Human evolution was shaped by both cooperative, pro-social behavior and a competitive, predatory approach for survival – resulting in a balanced distribution for most of humanity’s existence.
I highly recommend watching this "Frankly" from Nate Hagens. For everyone, but especially for those who think Humanity is doomed or should disappear. Where we are now is far from our actual baseline, which is much more cooperative and friendly. We are not the individualistic profit maximisers that we are mostly told we are.
#TheGreatSimplification #NateHagens #Frankly #psycopathy
"Missing Words" - by Nate Hagens - The Great Simplification
https://natehagens.substack.com/p/missing-words
> How can we discuss and respond to our culture’s biggest challenges if we don’t even have the words to describe them?
Deep reflections on a certainly important topic: that of the language. When we lack a word to describe a concept, it's more difficult to use it, it might not even stick inside us. The concepts Nate brings are a few of some very fundamental ones we need in order to face the end of the carbon pulse, and to do it in a way that favours life in all its aspects (including the existence of homo sapiens). Otherwise we might end like many other disappeared civilisations, or even species.
#NateHagens #TheGreatSimplification #Collapse
https://natehagens.substack.com/p/missing-words
> How can we discuss and respond to our culture’s biggest challenges if we don’t even have the words to describe them?
Deep reflections on a certainly important topic: that of the language. When we lack a word to describe a concept, it's more difficult to use it, it might not even stick inside us. The concepts Nate brings are a few of some very fundamental ones we need in order to face the end of the carbon pulse, and to do it in a way that favours life in all its aspects (including the existence of homo sapiens). Otherwise we might end like many other disappeared civilisations, or even species.
#NateHagens #TheGreatSimplification #Collapse
"How Facing Grief Can Help Us Navigate a World in Crisis" | Reality Roundtable #17 - The Great Simplification
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFpnY-ooQhw
I hope you can find the time to listen to these three beautiful humans sharing "The Work That Reconnects", which is a 48 hour workshop or process I myself have participated once. Take the time to let all their words in, and hopefully allow yourself to have the faith that this works (I've lived it myself, and so have they, facilitating hundreds of such workshops, and seeing the impact they have).
It's not true that we humans are cancer for the planet. We can live in many other ways, much more respectful with Mother Nature and (therefore) ourselves. It's only this particular culture ("modernity", we could call it?) that seems to have really lost sight of what being a human is.
Also, I deeply recommend this podcast. Nate brings such rich (not talking about money, of course) and wise people, I've learnt son much!
Sorry for the youtube link. Other ways to listen to it: (sadly all big techs): https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/reality-roundtable-17
#TheGreatSimplification #NateHagens #SkyeCielitaFlor #JohnSeed #TheWorkThatReconnects #JoanaMacy #DeepEcology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFpnY-ooQhw
I hope you can find the time to listen to these three beautiful humans sharing "The Work That Reconnects", which is a 48 hour workshop or process I myself have participated once. Take the time to let all their words in, and hopefully allow yourself to have the faith that this works (I've lived it myself, and so have they, facilitating hundreds of such workshops, and seeing the impact they have).
It's not true that we humans are cancer for the planet. We can live in many other ways, much more respectful with Mother Nature and (therefore) ourselves. It's only this particular culture ("modernity", we could call it?) that seems to have really lost sight of what being a human is.
Also, I deeply recommend this podcast. Nate brings such rich (not talking about money, of course) and wise people, I've learnt son much!
Sorry for the youtube link. Other ways to listen to it: (sadly all big techs): https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/reality-roundtable-17
#TheGreatSimplification #NateHagens #SkyeCielitaFlor #JohnSeed #TheWorkThatReconnects #JoanaMacy #DeepEcology
Why #AI Development Is Not What You Think
https://youtu.be/7Y_1_RmCJmA
Oh wow. Nate Hagen debunks 10 myths still taught in biz schools & economics classes – and describes their bad effects on our cultures, our ethical norms, and on the natural environment we're but a part of.
So satisfying! We should say EconObscene, not Anthropocene! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkIedVEkQZU
His way of illustrating his talk with charts and photos and stuff is also very neat.
If you don't know Nate Hagen yet, maybe check out his podcast #TheGreatSimplification and search for researcher names in his guest list you know. He talks to all kinds of researchers, social, medical, natural, economics, engineers, climate, everything. https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/podcast/episodes
He has a Phd in economics (in fact, he mentions the topic of his thesis in the talk above), used to work as stockbroker or something, until he got fed up with the narrow, surreal focus of economics.
@boell Wir empfehlen den Grünen Mitgliedern den erstklassigen Podcast, wer mag auch mit Video, https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/77-kate-raworth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwg4z7MaxTY @NateHagens@YouTube.com
"How Localization Builds Resilient Communities & Economies with Helena Norberg-Hodge | TGS 181"
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It is TOO EARLY for local currencies, but THE TIME IS RIPE for _local food Initiatives_
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Thought regarding "Treat others as you will that they treat you":
Harming ourselves harms those held onto us, so treat yourself as others wish you to benefit.
Thinking about how smoking tobacco impacts myself and others, too.
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BUTTTTT I refuse to initiate works on the Hawai'ian islands. That is criminally ceded native land. I will, however, do what I can to help native Hawai'ians to build up their own co-op
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Re: "Fuel (Concept)"
Fossil Fuel, Natural/Greenhouse Gas, Coal — DIRTY Fuel (not energy until consumed).
Sunlight, Water- & Air-flow, Heat Gradients, Biodiesel (recycled from organic wastes) — CLEAN Fuel.
We need to divest from the color-coding of Good v Bad.
Greenwashing and whitewashing, if inverted, become "red washing" and "black washing". Neither of those sounds pleasant to the Western superpsyche bc of racist histories.
If we can lessen color-association with health, we free ourselves from the biases implanted in us that encourage us to pursue false advertising.
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The underlying message:
Local, local, local;
Local. Local. Local.
LOCAL! LOCAL! LOCAL!
#Communities
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Lol George Washington was right: premature internationalization is a mistake (though not a fault)
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I WANT TO START A SCHOOL FOR Farming, Technology, Medicine.
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I would really like to work with you to build a chart of our local ecological dependencies:
I.e., upon which other forms of life do the lifeforms in our ecological habitats depend?
By fortifying the bases of the transespecial fuel chain, we secure our environment and assure both nature and ourselves of success and succession.
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The 5 Rs:
Reconnect (to others as primary, and to nature — practical and spiritual).
Rethink.
Resist.
Renew.
Rejoice.
Study HEALTHY people, not only the traumatized.
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"The biggest Poverty now is Time Poverty."
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I loved this two-hour(!) conversation with Oxford professor Iain McGilchrist, entitled “Wisdom Over Power: Why Contemplation & Wonder Are Essential for the Future of Humanity”.
Wide-ranging, but never boring, it takes you on a journey through the brain, spirituality and the power we all have to improve the well-being of our communities and the wider world.
Available at: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/165-iain-mcgilchrist
or wherever you get your podcasts.
#IainMcGilchrist
#thegreatsimplification
#wellbeing
#community
Eine Hörempfehlung 🎧 zu allen uns durch den Kopf gehenden Themen von local to universal.
#NateHagens (englischen) Podcast mit eloquenten Gesprächspartnern https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/🌍
Ideal beim #Sockenstopfen🧦 und #Unkrautjäten🌿 !
I'm always threatening one of these days I'll write a book called "The world's last modern country".
-- Dougald Hine
(On "The Great Simplification" 12 Feb 2025)
“The 7 Fundamental Drivers of Overshoot” by Nate Hagens
How growing consumption is pushing Earth beyond its carrying capacity
This is a refinement of a previous “Frankly” episode, in the form of an essay. I think it’s very useful to learn concepts such as the carbon pulse, overshoot and carrying capacity, the economic superorganism, the effect of addiction to dopamine (in a brain designed and fine-tuned for an environment very different than our current one in cities, and western culture)… As Nate says: there is no solution because there is no problem; instead, we face a predicament with maybe different outcomes.
#TheGreatSimplification #NateHagens #Overshoot #CarryingCapacity #EconomicSuperorganism #dopamine #Collapse
Why Contemplation & Wonder are essential for the Future of Humanity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F838KOrQrRg
#psychiatry #philosophy #wisdom #power #complexity #cosmos #contemplation #wonder #thegreatsimplification #iainmcgilchrist #natehagens
🙏 🌌 🧠
Instead of Netflix, we like watching together enlightening videos like this one:
"Why Contemplation & Wonder Are Essential for the Future of Humanity with Iain McGilchrist" | TGS 165
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F838KOrQrRg
(well, we do watch simpler things such as films and series too, of course!)
#TheGreatSimplification #NateHagens #IanMcGilchrist
"Why Contemplation & Wonder Are Essential for the Future of Humanity with Iain McGilchrist" | TGS 165
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F838KOrQrRg
(well, we do watch simpler things such as films and series too, of course!)
#TheGreatSimplification #NateHagens #IanMcGilchrist
#erikfernholm #natehagens #thegreatsimplification #lifeboatacademy #climatecrisis #polycrisis #metacrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #societalcollapse #permaculture #regenerativeagriculture #communityorganizing #sociocracy #relocalization #placebased #queerfarming #diversity #doughnuteconomics #gifteconomy #decolonization #climatejustice #resilience #reciprocity #cosmolocal
According to 20th Century British economist John Hicks, we haven't made any money in decades.
daily reminder that nate hagens is a #narcissists #traitor to the #environmental #movement, a #mansplainer, a #russianasset who invites #vatniks, #climatedeniers, #antivaxxers and #antiscience #imposters and #grifters to his podcast and does't give a shit about the #women who told him not to do that. he's now on #bluesky, so have fun with that one @ketanjoshi.co
#natehagens #TGS #thegreatsimplification more like #thegreatinsanity
“Rapid-Fire Answers to the Biggest Climate Questions with Stefan Rahmstorf” | TGS 141
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgF2TwJ5d6w
(Conversation recorded on July 30th, 2024) The science surrounding our planet’s dynamic and complex climate can be difficult to understand, and perhaps even more challenging to decipher what the actual realities and trajectories are among so much media coverage. Yet the study of Earth’s systems has been ongoing for decades, with a majority of scientists reaching a consensus on the realities of human-driven global heating.
In this episode, ocean and climate physicist Stefan Rahmstorf joins Nate for an overview on the most common questions and misconceptions concerning the state of the climate, including the nuances of what our future planetary home might look like.
How can carbon dioxide – which makes up such a small percentage of the atmosphere – have such a large effect on the temperature of the whole planet? Why does warming have such huge ripple effects across the biosphere – from ocean currents and wind patterns to extreme weather and wildfires? What do projections for the future tell us about the survivability of some of Earth’s most populated regions – and how can communities and nations prepare and mitigate these challenges amid many other converging crises we face?
About Stefan Rahmstorf:
Stefan Rahmstorf is Co-Head of the Research Department on Earth System Analysis of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Professor of Ocean Physics at the University of Potsdam. His research focuses on paleoclimate, ocean circulation, sea level, extreme weather events and Earth System modeling.
After working at the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute and the Institute of Marine Science in Kiel, Stefan Rahmstorf joined PIK in 1996. From 2004 to 2013 Stefan Rahmstorf advised the German government as a member of its Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). He is not only an outstanding and highly cited scientist but also a sought-after science communicator and speaker, winning the Climate Communication Prize of the American Geophysical Union in 2017.
More info on the episode: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/141-stefan-rahmstorf
#TheGreatSimplification #NateHagens #StefanRahmstorf #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #AMOC
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