I think it might be nice sometimes if we could slow things down, but I just don't think that's realistic. The faster it goes and the more ideas and the more people there are having ideas and trying things, the more this corpus of experience and thought builds up like a snowball rolling down a hill. If you want to make it a bigger thing, the top decile of the smartest people on the planet, almost everything that they believed to be true was not true. It leads us to believe that what we know now is true and real, where I think we both know that that's a load of bullshit.
Author, CEO of VUDU Marketing and digital nomad Sam McRoberts returns for his second appearance on Infinite Loops. This week, Sam and Jim discuss Sam’s latest book ‘The Grand Redesign’. Part science-fiction, part operating manual for upgrading human OS, ‘The Grand Redesign’ touches on a number of recurring Infinite Loops themes, and is available for free online (see ‘Important Links’ section below). Important Links:
Show Notes:
- Why Sam wrote the book
- Is the Watcher a reliable narrator?
- Interfering with complex systems
- An overview of Social OS
- Why we need White Mirror
- The kindness pledge
- Incentives and the Cobra Effect
- How do we break the Shannon limit?
- Jim’s movie idea
- Improving the political and legal system
- The opportunities of AI
- Optimising our system for flourishing
- Finding the hidden geniuses
- Sam’s solutions; reaching the tipping point
- Sam’s hopes for the book
- MUCH more!
Books Mentioned:
- The Grand Redesign; by Sam McRoberts
- The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It; by Will Storr
- Prometheus Rising; by Robert Anton Wilson
- House of Cards: Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth; by Robyn Dawes
- The Lessons of History: by Will Durant and Ariel Durant
- Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine; by Derren Brown
- The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future; by Kevin Kelly