Is There a Godhead?

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Don't simply believe everything you think you believe. Stronger your beliefs, the stronger your reasons to question them regularly. Right? Would you apply that to like religion and politics and? Yes. Yeah. I'm just believe. The Godhead had a mechanism for adjudicating this insistence that it mattered what you did,. That there were consequences for you to behavior at the same time. Everything will be brought back to the Godhead. And we're going to very soon have the same God problem of making things that will have choices and they may make choices that are reducing the options of others and heart. So how can the God bring back that which was wrong or harmed and that solution was the

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.