The Padverb Podcast with KMO

006 Truth is a Fallacy with Filip Dousek

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Filip Dousek is the Prague-based founder of a recently acquired AI-augmented analytics startup, a connoisseur of the "illusions that create our world," and the author of "Flock Without Birds," a book which actually seeded his startup idea… and took him more than a decade to write.

The conversation focuses mostly on Filip's literary output and touches on:

  • 05:26 – His multi-dimensional two-part novel, in which the protagonist, himself a data analyst, turns "big data" into a source of theological inquiry
  • 12:20 – Truth, complex systems, and predictive utility
  • 17:18 – Exploring rationality, consciousness, and subjectivity
  • 20:16 – The importance of keeping different perspectives
  • 23:52 – The perennial question of the existence (and the nature) of God
  • 31:36 – Looking for God in data
  • 38:00 – Cultural detour: “Pi” and other films by Darren Aronofsky
  • 39:05 – Finding fractal patterns and similarities
  • 40:32 – AI and the Gartner hype cycle
  • 49:12 – Brief story of Filip’s start-up; its product and vision
  • 53:28 – The book's structure and Filip's translation methodology
  • 57:41 – Prague's literary milieu and building a network in the larger English-speaking world

    • Links:

    • Filip Dousek: www.dousek.com |
      • Twitter: @fdousek
    • KMO: en.padverb.com/kmo |
      Twitter: @Kayemmo

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