Kevin Kelly

Episode Notes

[00:00] The Importance of Questioning

[01:21] Introduction to Curated Questions

[02:20] Meet Kevin Kelly

[03:56] Kevin Kelly's Mentor: Stewart Brand

[05:33] The Role of Questions in Intellectual Traditions

[06:47] Disequilibrium and Growth

[10:21] Embodied Questions and Exploration

[11:11] Balancing Exploration and Exploitation

[11:50] The Inefficiency of Questioning

[15:53] The Abundance Mindset

[18:39] The Inevitable and Quality Questions

[19:26] Hill Climbing vs. Hill Making

[22:28] The Challenge of Innovation

[24:13] The Beauty of Engineering and Innovation

[24:34] Navigating the Frontier of New Technologies

[25:33] The Role of AI in Question Formulation

[26:43] Challenges in Advancing AI Capabilities

[29:11] The Long Now Foundation and the 10,000 Year Clock

[29:56] Transmitting Values Over Time

[31:03] Ethics in AI and Self-Driving Cars

[33:26] The Art of Questioning

[34:04] Photography: Capturing vs. Creating

[36:12] The Inefficiency of Exploration

[38:36] Daily Practice and Long-Term Success

[40:17] The Importance of Quantity for Quality

[43:22] Final Thoughts and Encouragement on Questioning

[46:24] Summary Takeaways

 

Resources Mentioned

Wired Magazine

Whole Earth Review

WELL

Hackers Conference

What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly

The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly

Cool Tools Project

Long Now Foundation

Stewart Brand

Socratic Method

Koan

René Descartes

Conde Nast

Vouge

Olivetti Typewriter

Trolley Problem

Terry Gross

Lex Friedman

Tim Ferriss

KK.org

Kevin2Kelly on Instagram

Recomendo Newsletter

Excellent Advice for Living

Beauty Pill

Producer Ben Ford

 

Questions Asked

When did you first understand the power of questions?

Can I do that?

Can that be something that you can learn?

How did questions function differently between Eastern versus Western intellectual traditions?

What role do you think embodied questions those we explore through doing rather than thinking play in developing wisdom?

What's on the other side of the hill?

What happens if you go to the end?

What's the origin of this?

How should one think about the exploratory in one's life?

Is there anything that you would add to your list of 15 statements that define what makes a quality question?

Is there a qualitative difference between the questions humans are asking and the questions our AI systems are beginning to formulat