On this episode, Author and Professor Douglas Rushkoff joins Nate to discuss how human behavior interacts with technology and how we have arrived at a place with enormous wealth and income inequality just as society is rapidly approaching biophysical limits.
So far, I’ve been talking about the hardware of computing. The requisite hardware capacity is a necessary but not sufficient condition. A key advantage of nonbiological intelligence is that machines can easily share their knowledge. We exposed it to thousands of hours of recorded speech, corrected its errors, and patiently improved its performance.... See more
That said, this is a mindset you want to encourage in all employees. One way to do this is emphasize values or impact outside of your job description as part of the performance review process. The importance is emphasizing something bigger than the individual, particularly in the most critical stages as a company scales from a few dozen people, to... See more
Through when times are really good and when times are really bad. I think that’s kind of a really good test of a relationship, right? And then sort of find that fertile soil of sort of peace, where things are not totally wild in either direction, where you start to make a decision, right?
While you can't model a once-in-a-lifetime choice, you can model the deliberative tactics of expert decision-makers. These experts aren't just the master strategists running major companies or negotiating high-level diplomacy. They're the novelists who draw out the complexity of their characters' inner lives, the city officials who secure long-term... See more
"Some of the things we see as bugs might be, actually features, maybe crucial to our overall happiness...as our limitations might lead to More happiness than less".