Is It Easier to Make Money?

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I think there's some level of enjoyment or pride in their craftsmanship or whatever it is going on there because that's not the easiest way to make money. The weird one, there were another one of these Netflix films on the guy who got women to be strip searched at the McDonald's by the manager from a payphone. But again, the extent he had to go through to make pull this off, it was just bizarre. I did my study when I was running out of control about the amount of mutation and variation necessary in evolution. It's about 2% or 3%. Anything more, you kind of start to chaotic. And I'm guessing that if you went into kind of big

On his 68th birthday, Kevin Kelly began to write down for his young adult children some things he had learned about life that he wished he had known earlier. To his surprise, Kelly had more to say than he thought, and kept adding to the advice over the years, compiling a life’s wisdom into the pages of his book: Excellent Advice for Living.

Shermer and Kelly discuss: protopian progress • ChatGPT • artificial intelligence; an existential threat? • evolution • cultural progress • self-driving cars • innovation • social media • putting an end to war • compound interest and the long term effect of small changes • why you don’t want to be a billionaire • beliefs and reason • setting unreasonable goals • persistence as key to success • probabilities and statistics, not algebra and calculus • investing: buy and hold • how to fully become yourself.

Kevin Kelly helped launch and edit Wired magazine. He has written for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, among many other publications. His previous books include What Technology Wants, and The Inevitable, a New York Times bestseller. He is known for his technological optimism. Currently he is a Senior Maverick at Wired and lives in Pacifica, California.