Sam McRoberts — The Grand Redesign (EP.143)
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Infinite Loops
Podcast Notes Key Takeaways We are entering an exponential trajectory of technological progress and our antiquated minds cannot possibly keep up unless we change the stories, programming, and hardwareTechnological progress is like a snowball rolling down a hill, picking up more matter and evolving as it goes Today, we are operating on the programming that worked really well in caves and savannas but does not work quite as well in the massive groups that we find ourselves in now Stories can help us overcome the deeply-rooted social wiring that does not always serve usNegative storytelling appeals to our base emotion of fear, especially novel fear regarding things that newThe heretics working on the leading edge of technology must reframe their innovation’s impact with better stories We may fall victim to a self-fulfilling prophecy of a tech dystopia if we do not get the stories right Humans evolved during times of zero-sum conflict, so all of the stories we told around the campfire were zero-sum conflict-based storiesUpgrading the human operating system will not solve all the world’s problems, but it will create new and better problems that can also be solved Humans control what pumps the gas or slams on the break for the AI, which are control measures that we barely have for ourselves Our current system is optimized for growing GDP, not human flourishing Reduce the flow of negative information into your mind and increase the volume of positive information in the worldTry to be optimistic about the future, and see yourself as a human on earth instead of being a member of a specific tribe
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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:
Sam’s Twitter
Sam’s Substack
The Thinker and The Prover
Tinkered Thinking’s winning entry to our ‘White Mirror’ competition
Show Notes:
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 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