Kevin Kelly on Advice, AI, and Technology

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🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Photographer, author, and visionary Kevin Kelly talks about his book Excellent Advice for Living with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. His advice includes how to have a deep conversation, why it's better to control time than money--and whether, in the end, we should give advice in the first place. Other topics of discussion include the right object of our aspirations, the reason for optimism when it comes to technology, and why Kelly is not worried about AI.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.7	Institution.
0:13.7	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:31.5	Today's February 22nd, 2023.
0:40.1	My guest is Kevin Kelly.
0:42.8	Kevin is an author, a photographer, a visionary.
0:46.0	He's a lot of things, all them interesting.
0:49.2	This is Kevin Spith, the parents on econ talk.
0:51.2	He was last year in June of 2016 talking about his book, The Inevitable.
0:57.0	His latest book is excellent advice for living wisdom I wish I'd known earlier, which is
1:03.3	our topic for today, although I expect we'll get into many, many other things.
1:07.5	Kevin, welcome back to econ talk.
1:10.2	It's always a pleasure to be here, to chat with you, and I appreciate your time sharing
1:16.4	with me.
1:17.4	Your book is a collection of aphorisms, short bits of wisdom, insights, advice.
1:22.8	I would have started with the first one, which could be the motto for this program.
1:29.4	Here's the first one.
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