The Michael Shermer Show

333. Kevin Kelly — ChatGPT, OpenAI, and Excellent Advice for Living

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Mar 18, 2023
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Are You an Optimist or a Realist?
02:27 • 2min
3
Is There a Choice About AIs?
04:35 • 2min
4
How Can I Tell if I'm a GPT Generated Essay?
06:29 • 2min
5
The New Rationality of UPI
08:38 • 2min
6
What's the Soup of the Day?
10:54 • 3min
7
Writers Love the UPI. It's My Intern
13:25 • 2min
8
Is the Threat of a Terrorist Increasing?
15:52 • 2min
9
The Threat of Self-Driving Technology?
17:42 • 2min
10
Is There a Future for AI?
19:49 • 4min
11
The Existential Threat of AI?
23:49 • 2min
12
Is the Machine an Existential Threat?
25:56 • 2min
13
The Evolution of IQ Tests
27:27 • 2min
14
All Ideas Are Network Ideas
29:38 • 2min
15
Are You Cramming for the Final Exam?
31:11 • 3min
16
Are You Reminding Yourself?
33:57 • 2min
17
The Civil War Is Bad, but It's Better Than It Was
35:46 • 2min
18
Is Social Media Designed to Accelerate Anger?
37:21 • 2min
19
Forgiveness Is Accepting the Apologies That You're Not Going to Get
39:12 • 2min
20
You Can't Reason Someone Out of a Thing, Right?
40:56 • 2min
21
I Accept Most Scientists Tell Me This Is True, I Accept the Sign
42:58 • 2min
22
The Chat Bots Are Going to Initiate a Revolution in Our Epistemological Apparition
44:45 • 3min
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How Do We Know if We Trust a Chat Bot?
47:46 • 2min
24
Is There a Ceiling Aiming to Be the Best?
49:44 • 3min
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Is There a Secret Sauce to Success?
52:49 • 2min
26
Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
55:02 • 2min
27
How Does Chat GPT Work?
56:51 • 2min
28
Is It a Big, Huge Bumper?
59:04 • 2min
29
99% of Success Is Just Showing Up. Exactly.
01:00:42 • 2min
30
What Will You Be Wrong About?
01:02:46 • 2min
31
The Next Big Moral Revolution
01:04:35 • 2min
32
The Importance of Economic Sanctions
01:06:41 • 3min
33
The Security Dilemma
01:09:21 • 2min
34
How to Transcend the Influence of Your Mentors
01:11:16 • 3min
35
Investing in the Stock Market
01:13:48 • 2min
36
How Many Hedge Fund Managers Are There?
01:16:02 • 3min
37
The Dunning Cougar Effect
01:18:36 • 3min
38
How Do You Know Who You Are?
01:21:20 • 3min
39
You Want to Live in a World in Which an AI Can't Predict Your Views
01:24:15 • 2min
40
Are You a Skeptic or a Political Party Person?
01:25:58 • 3min
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Is It Easier to Make Money?
01:28:49 • 3min
42
Is There a Godhead?
01:31:45 • 3min
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Is the Godhead the Least Contradictory of the Three?
01:35:08 • 2min
44
I Believe in God, Where Did I Come From?
01:37:32 • 2min
45
Orchard Capital Punishment
01:39:30 • 2min
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Don't Be the Best Be the Only, Okay?
01:41:09 • 2min
47
Is There a Better Story?
01:42:54 • 2min