Kevin Kelly
18 statements across 5 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 24, 2019 by Neil Pasricha · said 17 times in 6 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Hugh Howey (8), Neil Pasricha (5), Derek Sivers (2), Sam Arbesman (1), Matt Ridley (1)
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2023 3 mentions in 1 episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
2016 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Kevin Kelly, oldest first
Dec 24, 2019
Jul 21, 2020 positive
May 16, 2023 neutral
Kevin Kelly: LLMs represent the epitome of average wisdom-of-the-crowd thinking
“Right now, the best way to think of these AI is the chat. Training, the LL, the LLMs, is that they're the epitome of wisdom of the crowd. Ok, they're wisdom of the crowd thinking. That's what it is. It's the collective, all the average people in the world, and…”
May 16, 2023 positive
Kelly: The Amish evaluate technology by whether it enables daily family meals
“For the Amish, what they're trying to use, one of the reasons how, how, one of the ways that they decide which technology they're going to use or not use is they have a very clear idea of success. And so their goal is to have a lot of kids and to have every me…”
May 16, 2023 positive
May 16, 2023 negative
Kelly: Highly correlated opinions across subjects indicate ideological conformity
“If your views on other things can be predicted from your views on one thing, you need to be very careful that you're not in the grip of an ideologue, because that's what it is. It means that you, your opinions are too highly correlated with each other, and tha…”
May 16, 2023
Kelly: Time is the only constraint creators control against infinite perfectionism
“The amount of work to write a book is infinite. It just could go on and on, and that's true of almost any project in terms of perfecting. It's bottomless. So really, the only thing you control is your time. You say, I have this much time to give to it. I'm goi…”
May 16, 2023 positive
Kelly: Unpredictable thinking prevents individuals from being imitated by AI
“If you're unpredictable in that way, you're much less likely to be taken over by an AI. You want to live your life in a way that the AI cannot They predict what you're going to do. They cannot kind of fake you or cannot imitate you.”
May 16, 2023
May 16, 2023
Kelly: Spend two-thirds of your time optimizing and one-third exploring new things
“You actually want to spend two-thirds of your time trying to optimize things that you want to go deeper and better, and then a third trying, trying new things, and that's been shown in many, many ways to be roughly true.”
May 16, 2023
Kelly aimed to provoke a rotating one-fifth of Whole Earth Review readers
“When I was running a magazine called Co-Evolution and Whole Earth Review, I was the editor, and we kind of ran a little, maybe provocative kind of articles, and my goal was to piss off One fifth of the audience, but keep rotating. Make sure it wasn't the same.”
May 16, 2023
Kelly: Algorithmic exposure to superlative human achievement diminishes everyday self-worth
“We're being exposed to the superlative world. We're seeing lightning strikes, striking people. It's like things that we would never see. It's not ordinary, but we're seeing this extreme superlative version of the world, which does several things. One is it kin…”
May 16, 2023 positive
Kelly: Aim to be the only, not the best, to resist AI
“Really, what you want to be able to do is to have a style, so to speak, to have something that's unpredictable, that's imitable, that you can't be imitated. And this, again, goes back to my other piece of advice about don't aim to be the best, aim to be the on…”
Jul 4, 2023
Pasricha: Wired Founder Kevin Kelly Uses Desktop Lifespan Countdown Clock
“Kevin Kelly, founder of Wired Magazine keeps a clock on his desktop that has expected lifespan, subtracts his current age, measured in days. So, if the average lifespan, which it is, in North America is 30,000 days, and he happens to have lived 21,500 of them,…”
Jul 4, 2023 positive
Dec 26, 2023 neutral
Kelly: Large language models epitomize the collective average thinking of the crowd
“Right now, the best way to think of these AI is the chat. Training, the LL, the LLMs, is that they're the epitome of wisdom of the crowd. Ok, they're wisdom of the crowd thinking. That's what it is. It's the collective, all the average people in the world, and…”
Dec 26, 2023
Kelly: To survive AI, aim to be the only, not the best
“Don't aim to be the best, aim to be the only. So if you are in this category that it's hard to imitate you, that's a That's a really good place to be in the human world, and also a really good place to be in the AI world, because AIs will have difficulty in im…”
Dec 26, 2023
Kevin Kelly: Allocate Two-Thirds to Optimization and One-Third to New Exploration
“So you actually want to spend two thirds of your time trying to optimize things that you want to go deeper and better, and then a third trying, trying new things, and that's been shown in many, many ways to be roughly true.”