Ken Stanley
6 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 4, 2022 by Ken Stanley · across every show →
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Oct 4, 2022
Stanley: True visionaries spot when stepping stones snap into place
“I think a visionary is somebody, in contrast, who has recognized when the stepping stones actually have snapped into place. Now, that's a person you should follow, and that's a very interesting and unique kind of person. It's a different kind of a person, and …”
Oct 4, 2022 negative
Stanley: Scientific peer review and grant evaluation are flawed by objective thinking
“I think peer review in scientific publication and also in like the assessment of proposals for getting grants, Is, is flawed also because of objective thinking, but it is a place where I think we can if we structure it right, which would be somewhat different …”
Oct 4, 2022 negative
Stanley: Middle managers cannot permit creative exploration because they answer to their own superiors
“The real problem for your boss is they have a boss. How are they going to explain it to their boss? The problem is that this culture percolates through everything. So like everybody's trapped in, even if they believe in what I'm saying”
Oct 4, 2022
Stanley: Older luminaries get stuck because deviating from success is scary
“I think this is why like luminaries kind of get stuck in a rut as they get older.
It's part of it.
I think is that it's really,
It's really scary, like, to leave that path, because that's what you're known for, that's what everybody respects you for, and you'r…”
Oct 4, 2022 bearish
Stanley: Direct pursuit of human-level AI is a naive objective
“Like, at some level, there's, like, this really grandiose conception of, like, some human-like computer, and, like, that is, I think, a naive objective right now. Like, you just don't want to know how to do that. We don't know what the stepping stones are that…”
Oct 4, 2022 positive
Stanley: Innovation spreads via individual contrarians, not broad consensus
“How innovation actually happens is individual connections. Most people see some idea somebody had and say, well, that doesn't fit with the usual paradigm. Like that's not actually a good idea. Like we know the right way. Now we're all very sure right now what …”