Chaos, order, and emergent system design with Matthew Pirkowski | Talk of Today Podcast
Matthew Pirkowski (@MattPirkoswki) is one of Twitter's most incisive thinkers, offering penetrating insights in things ranging from representations of value, the many problems of social media platforms and how we interact with them, the evolution of society, and designing emergent systems. In our conversation we cover:
In our conversation we cover: - The substance underlying Jordan Peterson's main body of work - The role money plays in scaling social groups - Specialisation as epistemic speciation - Social media and our incoherent information environments - Emergent system design
Watch the full Talk of Today episode with Prof. Paul Davies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsbR6NeWsWA&t=1924s
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Paul is a celebrated British scientist and author who has focused on theoretical physics, cosmology, and astrobiology.
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Prof. Jason Potts is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at RMIT University and Co-director of the Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT in Melbourne Australia.
In our conversation we cover:
- The economy as a complex adaptive system
- Why capitalism is a misnomer, and instead, the economic system in which we live might be better characterised as an institutional market society for the growth of knowledge.
- We explore why innovation actually begins before the creative entrepreneur in what's called an innovation commons.
- and, of course, what will likely become a defining technology in this decade and those to come: blockchain. Jason explains why this will be the base layer for the emerging digital economy and why NFTs, non-fungible tokens, are the start of a new age of experimentation in property rights.
If you've had any hesitancy or misgiving about blockchain technology in the past, Jason will likely change your mind.
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Show notes: https://www.samhbarton.com/podcast/happiness-and-society-with-kostadin-kushlev
What makes us happy? What affects do the decisions we make have on our subjective well-being?
How does money, or parenthood affect our happiness? What are societies like when the people in them are happier? What affects do new technologies like smartphones, and constant connectivity, have on how happy we think we are?
If happiness, subjective well-being, or flourishing is important (which i'm sure we'd all agree it is), answering these questions has profound consequences for how choose to organise our societies.
Today we're talking to Kostadin Kushlev, an assistant professor in psychology at Georgetown University where he leads the The Digital Health and Happiness Lab, exploring questions of how digital technologies affect health and well-being.
The general themes covered in the podcast
Happiness helps health, productivity and being a good citizen
Components of well being
Using phones doesn’t make us feel worse, it just removes opportunities for potential happiness.
Parenthood and well being
Affects of do not disturb on people who have ADHD
Income and its affect on happiness/well being
Progressive taxation and its effect on the general population’s well being (In the States)
Living a Psychologically rich life and what that means
Links
Kostadin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/KushlevPhD
Kostadin's papers: https://www.kushlev.com/papers#publications
ADHD and Smartphones: https://theconversation.com/are-our-smartphones-afflicting-us-all-with-symptoms-of-adhd-58330
Stop Checking Email So Often: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/opinion/sunday/stop-checking-email-so-often.html?_r=0
Smartphones and Well-being: https://theconversation.com/to-improve-digital-well-being-put-your-phone-down-and-talk-to-people-82057
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Climate change is an issue that is going unsolved due to national interests 'trumping' global interests.
How much would crowdsourcing a potential solution actually cost? It's not as much as you'd think. Find out how much in the video.
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Sources:
Global Monthly Mean Carbon Dioxide: https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/
Tesla Gigafactory: https://www.tesla.com/gigafactory
Fossil Fuel Subsidies: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/18/fossil-fuel-companies-getting-10m-a-minute-in-subsidies-says-imf
Documentary on Climate change -' Before the Flood' http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/before-the-flood/
Ocean Comparison Photos: https://news.uaf.edu/study-reveals-how-arctic-ocean-drives-ice-melt/
American Government Military Spending: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/pagedetails.action?granuleId=BUDGET-2015-TAB-5-1&packageId=BUDGET-2015-TAB&fromBrowse=true
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Jeremy is CEO of LBRY, a blockchain based protocol which is aiming to do what bitcoin has done for money for publishing. In that, rather than relying upon third parties to aggregate and distribute content, library has built a technology that allows this to be done peer to peer without fear of censorship or demonetisation. He's also CEO of Odyssee, a youtube-like video streaming platform built on LBRY technology.
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Dr. Peter Rohde is an ARC Future Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Quantum Software & Information at the University of Technology Sydney. Peter is also a mountaineer, musician, cryptoanarchist, and author of the recently released book "The Quantum Internet".
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- Peter's Twitter: https://twitter.com/peter_rohde
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Complete Talk of Today episode with Prof. Jason Potts: https://youtu.be/0auaRpbsZd8
Guest Info: Jason is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at RMIT University and Co-director of the Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT in Melbourne Australia. His research focuses on the economics of innovation and new technologies, economic evolution, institutional economics, and complexity economics. He has written 5 books and published over 80 articles on topics including growth theory, creative industries, economics of cities, innovation commons, and most recently on crypto-economics and blockchain.
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Watch the full Talk of Today episode with Prof. Paul Davies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsbR6NeWsWA&t=1924s
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Paul is a celebrated British scientist and author who has focused on theoretical physics, cosmology, and astrobiology.
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