940: Byron Reese | Humanity's Mysterious Journey from Antiquity to AI
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Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
How coded into our DNA are the universal innovations that have driven human history globally? Futurist Byron Reese shares what he's uncovered here!
What We Discuss with Byron Reese:- Why innovations that increase productivity are always good for humans — because they won't steal and devalue our jobs, but create more than we can fill.
- Why did it only take humanity three generations to get from the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk to landing on the moon, but our ancestors endured 80,000 generations using the same stone tool without modification?
- How much does civilization owe to the advent of language?
- Why are ancient cave paintings found around the world so eerily similar — down to stenciled human hands with missing fingers?
- What can we learn about our species and its intrinsic coding by studying the communication patterns of honeybees, ants, and other insects?
- And much more...
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| 0:54.3 | Today we're talking with my friend Byron Reese. |
| 0:57.1 | Byron is an entrepreneur but more importantly he's a really brilliant thinker who |
| 1:00.5 | has been to North Korea way more times than pretty much anybody I know |
| 1:04.2 | including myself. He's kind of the the human embodiment of a book of |
| 1:08.9 | random interesting facts right so at a book of you know factoids isn't the right word but just |
| 1:14.2 | super interesting maybe maybe snappleish facts come to life but we do a bit of a |
| 1:18.1 | deeper dive in it that might be selling it a little short sorry Byron today in |
| 1:21.8 | addition to North Korea will explore human and animal |
| 1:24.2 | communication and the origins of human language and communication as well. We'll also connect language |
| 1:29.6 | to advance thought processes and something called Theory of Mind, which has implications not only for animals and of course for humans, but even for artificial intelligence. |
| 1:39.0 | Speaking of which, we fade into this conversation on the subject of AI and jobs just because we hit record while we were |
| 1:44.7 | rapping before the show and well we'll just fade into this show the same way. |
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