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Massimo Pigliucci has a Doctorate in Genetics from the University of Ferrara (Italy), a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Connecticut,
and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee.
He has done post-doctoral research in evolutionary ecology at Brown University and is currently the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York.
His research interests include the philosophy of biology, the relationship between
science and philosophy, the nature of pseudoscience, and the practical philosophy of Stoicism. Prof. Pigliucci has been elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science.
In the area of public outreach, Prof. Pigliucci has published in national outlets such as the NewYork Times, Philosophy Now and The Philosopher's Magazine among others. I have linked in the show notes to a great article he wrote recently in the New York times.
Pigliucci publishes two blogs: Plato's Footnote (platofootnote.org), on general philosophy, and How to Be a Stoic (howtobeastoic.org), on his personal exploration of Stoicism as practical philosophy.
At last count, Prof. Pigliucci has published 146 technical papers in science and philosophy. He is also the author or editor of 10 technical and public outreach books, most recently of Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to a More Meaningful Life (Basic Books) Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem (University of Chicago Press), co-edited with Maarten Boudry. Other books include Answers for Aristotle: How Science and
Philosophy Can Lead Us to a More Meaningful Life (Basic Books) and Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (University of Chicago Press).
We explored quite a few topics on Ethics and AI, Types of Ethical Philosophies, the difficulty of programming ethics, stoicism.
I also asked him how to pose great questions to stir great conversation at the table with my kids...
There is a bunch of resources that we discussed. Check them out on redzonetech.net.
Major Take-Aways From This Episode:
1) 3 Major Types of Ethical Philosophies.
2) Ancient Virtue Ethics and Philippa Foot .The answer is always well it depends, what would a good person do? Human judgment is needed + nuance.
3) Modern Kantian (Started by Immanuel Kant) Deontological Ethics Rule-based ethics.
4) Modern John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism Ethics is whatever increases the happiness of the largest number of people.
5) Why there is no such thing as Intuition and how understanding Intuition and Science can make you aware of how to make yourself better as a person and leader.
6) 3 Steps to augmenting intuition using Stoicism.
7) AI vs. Smart Intelligence versus consciousness
a. Trolley dilemma;
b. Throw-man-off-bridge dilemma;
c. Autonomous cars (programming a car to avoid a human being).
8) The different types of philosophy.
9) Kids and Philosophy resources to get your kids into good dinner table debates.
10) The Stoic Philosophy between (preferences and desires) and examples.
11) Skill acquisition and developing expertise using Stoic Philosophy.
12) Types of Philosophy of Science (Mathematics, Logic, Stoic). The role of Logic.
13) Why Stoicism is gaining popularity.
14) Stoicism for kids.
Ways to connect with Massimo Pigliucci:
Website:
Teachings, event and news updates
- Plato’s Footnote
- How to Be a Stoic
- Rationally Speaking (archives, Massimo’s first blog, which ran from August 2005 to March 2014)
Podcast:
Rationally Speaking (archives)
Books and Publications:
- Books written or edited by Massimo Pigliucci
- Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to a Meaningful Life (mentioned in the interview)
Video Resources:
Resources Mentioned:
- Stoicon
- How to be a stoic
- One of his best articles from the New York Times – How to Be A Stoic
- A great interview with Ryan Holiday on Stoic Philosophy
- Book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
- Pythagorous cave in Greece
Kids Philosophy Resources:
- Philosophy for Kids: 40 Fun Questions That Help You Wonder About Everything!
- Philosophy for Teens: Questioning Life's Big Ideas
- Big Ideas for Little Kids: Teaching Philosophy through Children's Literature
- The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning
- Young Person’s Guide to Philosophy
Other Resources:
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Daniel Burrus has over 800k followers on Linkedin. Out of 300 million linkedin profiles he is in the top 35. This is stunning, but wait because once I go through his bio you will understand why.
He is considered one of the World's Leading Futurists on Global Trends and Innovation. The New York Times has referred to him as one of the top three business gurus in the highest demand as a speaker.
He is a strategic advisor to executives from Fortune 500 companies helping them to develop game-changing strategies based on his proven methodologies for capitalizing on technology innovations and their future impact. He is the author of six books, including THE NEW YORK TIMES and THE WALL STREET Journal best seller Flash Foresight as well as the highly acclaimed Technotrends.
Daniel Burrus' accurate predictions date back to the early 1980s (over 35 years) where he became the first and only technology futurist to accurately identify the twenty technologies that would become the driving forces of business and economic change for decades to come. Since then he has established a worldwide reputation for his exceptional record of predicting the future of technology driven change and its direct impact on the business world.
As a business strategist, he has helped hundreds of clients profit from new opportunities and develop successful competitive business strategies based on the creative application of leading-edge technologies. Daniel is a thought leader and contributing writer on the topics of innovation, change and the future for HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW, LINKEDIN, HUFFINGTON POST, WIRED MAGAZINE AND EXAMINER.COM to name a few.
He has founded six businesses, four of which were national leaders in the United States in the first year. He is the CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology driven trends to help clients profit from technological, social and business forces that are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities.
Major take – aways from this episode are:
- Why is having an ‘anticipatory’ organization better than being ‘agile’.
- Developing a Methodology to Anticipate Disruption and Opportunities.
- The critically important difference between a HARD and a SOFT trends in evaluating risk.
- Is Bitcoin a Hard or Soft trend for example? Is Cyber currency a hard or soft trend?
- The difference between ‘computing power’ and ‘processing power’ related to Moore’s Law.
- What happened to Kodak when they treated digital photography as a Soft Trend.
- Business process trends over the next 5 years [Hard Trend].
- The Science of Strategic Foresight.
- How to Avoid Busying Yourself out of business.
- How to identify change versus transformation.
- Rapid problem solving for CIOs by using the “skip it process”.
- The problem is never ‘budget’.
- 3 HARD Technology TRENDS to pay attention to: Technology, Demographics (Gen Z), and Government Regulation (caused by Cyber).
Read full transcript here.
I have linked up all the show notes on redzonetech.net/podcast where you can get access to Daniel Burrus’s book and publications.
About Daniel Burrus:
DANIEL BURRUS is considered one of the World's Leading Futurists on Global Trends and Innovation, and is the founder and CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology driven trends to help clients understand how technological, social and business forces are converging to create enormous untapped opportunities. He is the author of six books including New York Times & Wall Street Journal best seller Flash Foresight.
Daniel Burrus is also the creator of The Anticipatory Organization™ Learning System–named a Top 10 Product of 2016.The AO Learning System is a training process for executives and their teams to develop the skills to accurately foresee and take critical actions before disruption strikes.
How to get in touch with Daniel Burrus :
Website:
Blog:
Books/Publications:
- Flash Foresight: How to See The Invisible and Do The Impossible
- Know What’s Next Magazine (published annually)
Key Resources:
- Burrus Research: “Anticipatory Organization Model” training programs
- Harvard Business Review: Today’s CIO needs to be the Chief Innovation Officer
- TedEx Talk -Seeing Invisible Solutions to Impossible Problems
- Wikipedia Page
- Burrus Blog post: Today's CTO: The Chief Transformation Officer
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About Bill Murphy
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Kevin Kelly, I think, may be the smartest person in the world...and I am only half-joking. I have been deeply interested in his work, and his thinking has influenced mine.
His 2010 book What Technology Wants changed my perspective on Information Technology in 2010; his book Cool Tools is a compendium of the best tools cultivated from his years of research. Among other resources I like is his blog post 1000 True Fans; his latest book just released this summer titled The Inevitable; and his podcast interviews on London Real, Tim Ferriss, Lewis Howes, and Chase Jarvis.
I asked him to come onto the show to get into topics that I had not heard him dive into from the perspective that I was curious about... I know you will be too.
Major take aways from this episode are:
1. If you were the leader of a 1000 person company, what would you ask your direct 5 reports to do?
2. What skills are needed to teach kids to handle this new future in regards to learning and failure?
3. How Kevin Kelly would handle ethics and governance as we program Artificial Intelligence.
4. How humans will become more ethical and moral training AI.
5. Kevin's AI philosophy is very unique and will help you understand the role of AI working with other AIs.
6. His opinion on the difference between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning.
7. The importance of being a newbie and an attitude of being a lifelong learner.
8. The difference between learning, how to learn versus finding how you learn that is unique to you.
9 . The skills enterprise leaders need to have in regards to how to fail.
10. The important skill of looking at the edges.
11. "In a world of abundance the only scarcity will be our attention," Herbert Simon.
I have linked up all the show notes on redzonetech.net/podcast when you can get access to Kevin Kelly's books and publications.
About Kevin Kelly:
Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular Cool Tools website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers' Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy, the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control, a graphic novel about robots and angels, The Silver Cord, an oversize catalog of the best of Cool Tools, and his summary theory of technology in What Technology Wants (2010). His new book for Viking/Penguin is called The Inevitable.
Read full transcript here.
How to get in touch with Kevin Kelly:
Website:
Podcast:
- Cool Tools Podcast
Blog:
Books:
- The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
- What Technology Wants
- Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities
- Full List of Published Books by Kevin Kelly
Key Resources:
- Blog post 1000 True Fans
- TEDxTalk 12 Inevitable Forces That Will Shape Our Future
- Interview for London Real
- Interview with Tim Ferriss
- Interview with Lewis Howes
- Interview with Chase Jarvis
This episode is sponsored by the CIO Scoreboard, a powerful tool that helps you communicate the status of your IT Security program visually in just a few minutes.
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* Outro music provided by Ben’s Sound
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About Bill Murphy
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