AI and Excellent Advice for Living | Kevin Kelly
Good Life Project
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4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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You’ve heard about it everywhere, but what does AI have to do, if anything, with living a good life? With how you live and work and play? With the choices you get to make, and the choices that might be taken from you? With the ability to do more of what you love and less of everything else? And, beyond AI, what are some of the big levers to live by? The simple bits of wisdom that actually have a giant impact on everything from work to play, love to health and beyond?
These are just some of the big questions and ideas I’m exploring with none other than truly visionary thinker, Kevin Kelly. Kevin has played a pivotal role in shaping the discourse around technology and its potential impact on society for decades. His latest book, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier is an ideal companion for anyone seeking to navigate life with grace and creativity.
In today's episode, we dive deep into the fascinating world of emergent technologies, with a focus on AI, and get to some both exciting and unsettling, but important truths (or at least guesses), unearthing some the most groundbreaking ideas and insights that promise to redefine the very fabric of our existence. And we also dive into some of the fun, surprising and wise and, in his words, excellent bits of advice for living.
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| 0:00.0 | being you will entail your faults as well. And part of that is owning up into the owning your faults |
| 0:06.8 | and understanding that they are embedded in the kind of things that make you great at the same time |
| 0:12.1 | and kind of dealing with them, taking responsibility for them and ownership and all that kind of |
| 0:16.8 | stuff. But they're going to go away. I mean, we're not perfect. This is not a path to perfection. |
| 0:21.5 | This is a path to distinction, which is very different. So fully becoming you doesn't mean that you |
| 0:27.3 | become a saint. It means to become an individual. You become realized and you're fullest. And |
| 0:33.3 | that's my hope that every person alive born and yet unborn would have the opportunity to fully become |
| 0:39.0 | themselves. Okay, so you have heard about it everywhere. But what does AI, artificial intelligence, |
| 0:47.6 | actually have to do if anything with living a good life, with how you live and work and play, |
| 0:53.6 | with the choices you get to make and the choices that maybe you won't get to make, with the |
| 0:58.3 | ability to do more of what you love and less of everything else and beyond AI, what are some of |
| 1:03.2 | the big levers to live by the simple bits of wisdom that actually have a giant impact on everything |
| 1:09.7 | from work to play, love to health and beyond. Well, these are just some of the big questions and |
| 1:15.4 | ideas that I am exploring with none other than truly visionary thinker Kevin Kelly. So Kevin |
| 1:21.3 | has played a pivotal role in shaping the discourse around technology and its potential impact |
| 1:26.5 | on society. And I'm talking about on our day to day lives for decades. He was the founding editor |
| 1:33.7 | of Wired Magazine has written for many of the biggest media outlets on the planet for a very |
| 1:38.4 | long time and is a bestselling author with a wide array of books, including what technology wants, |
| 1:45.0 | the inevitable and his latest book excellent advice for living wisdom I wish I'd known earlier. |
| 1:50.9 | It's a fun, short and sweet companion for anyone seeking to really just navigate life with grace |
| 1:56.2 | and humor and creativity. And as a senior maverick at Wired and Co-Chair of the Long Now Foundation, |
| 2:02.4 | Kevin is currently spearheading this ambitious project to build a clock in a mountain that will |
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