Greater Than Code

02:05 - Laura’s Superpower: Problem Solving

04:07 - What to Expect When You’re Expecting Robots

06:59 - The Human/Robot Partnership

14:34 - Human Behavior Towards Robots; Vice-Versa

20:38 - Robots as “Social Entities”

24:43 - How Media Affects The Way People View Robots

26:39 - How Humans Can “Update” Themselves: Experiencing Robotics

28:23 - Robots as “Social Entities” (Cont’d)

39:52 - Will and, if so, when will autonomous cars become the standard?

Reflections:

John: What is the right level of empathy for social entities?

Jamey: Being in the process of consciously creating new social norms and thinking more thoroughly about who you could be hurting with your actions.

Push, the talking trash can, makes his final appearance after 19 years at Walt Disney World

Casey: Treating certain social entities in different ways; i.e. a Roomba and a dishwasher. And, the way you have to think about who is outside autonomous cars: not just the passengers. Also, we should be on the lookout for robotaxis!

Laura: Not wanting robots in the future to look too much like people.

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02:21 - Julie’s Superpower: Working Really Hard and Maintaining Focused Attention on Things for a Long Period of Time

04:25 - Robotics and Working in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

11:10 - Structuring and Optimizing the World for Machines, AI, and Robots

26:10 - Understanding Output and Building Calibrated Trust

33:39 - Robots and Humans in Public Spaces

51:41 - What To Expect When You're Expecting Robots: The Future of Human-Robot Collaboration (Book Discussion)

54:40 - More on Human/Machine Collaboration:

Reflections:

Rein: There may be a sense in which AI or ML systems are categorically different from the sorts of systems we’ve tried to control in the past because you can’t characterize the variety of the system anymore just by observing its inputs and outputs.

Damien: Artificial intelligence is not human intelligence, nor should it be. The goals are making systems and human lives better; not making the computer better.

Julie: Aim for mediocrity!

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01:41 - Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’

13:59 - Predicting How People Behave and Act via Machine Learning is Ethically Flawed

34:21 - Examining Machine Learning Models and Data

“When you get rid of what you don’t want, you do not necessarily get what you do want and you may get something you want a lot less. It is that simple…..anyone that ever watches television knows that!” – Russell L. Ackoff

50:09 - Important Ideosyncracies and Contaminating Factors

Reflections:

Mando: Cartesian thinking and worldview is embedded in us.

Avdi: “Contaminating factors.”

“Dive into yourself to find yourself.”

Rein: Jainism has gotten this right for centuries.

Jessica: Giving the Cartesian program credit for what it’s good for: using science as a way to break things down into parts and studying them deeply; we’ve learned a lot.

Abeba: It’s not all bad. BUT, we forget to put the pieces back together and acknowledge reality.

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01:26 - Rylan’s Superpower: Helping People & Giving Back to Community

03:01 - The Righteous Mind / Making and Rationalizing Choices

09:11 - An Example of a Moral Reaction (CW Beastiality)

10:26 - Humans as Individuals vs Humans as Species / Increasing Group-Level Cohesion

19:43 - Bridging the Gap Politically

27:59 - Looking at Morality

38:55 - Morality Binds and Blinds / Group Cohesion

48:37 - Moving Forward / Fixing Divisiveness / Welcoming People w/ Different Viewpoints

Reflections:

Damien: The Happiness Hypothesis (The Elephant Metaphor): Reflecting on the elephant.

Rylan: Finding a middle ground.

“The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose; Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart; If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease.” ― Jianzhi Sengcan

John: The value of conservative viewpoints vs liberal viewpoints.

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

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Special Guest: Rylan Bowers.

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CONTENT WARNING: Eating Disorders, Substance Abuse & Addiction

01:12 - Cher’s Superpower: Making and Collecting Hot Sauce

04:33 - Good Ideas Can Come From Anywhere

12:50 - Bravery, Enduring, and Overcoming; Eradicating Stigmas and Breaking Stereotypes

30:12 - Struggle, Opportunity, and Recognizing White Privilege

Reflections:

John: The incredible power we can have as people when we claim our story rather than deny it.

Rein: There is a huge potential for empathy between people with a lot in common, and it’s just about unlocking the potential that already exists.

Cher: Empathy is the glue that holds everything together.

Jerome: The skills transfer of experience.

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Special Guest: Cher.

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01:17 - Veni’s Superpower: Being Adaptable and Not Giving Up

02:25 - Going From Coder to Entrepreneur

07:00 - Being Protective and Selective of Company Partnerships

14:05 - Changes Veni Has Seen Over Time re: Hiring Around Diversity and Inclusion

15:38 - Things Hiring Managers Should and Should NOT Do When Hiring for Diversity

19:13 - Entry-Level Support

21:50 - Upholding Integrity > Capitalism

25:48 - Revenue Transparency

32:13 - Finding Your Place in Tech and Serving Underrepresented People

51:29 - Being Vocal About Work Conditions; i.e.: “Whistleblowing” / Employee Dissent

Reflections:

John: The critical role that organizations like Diversify Tech have created by placing themselves in a trusted position between job seekers and companies to protect underrepresented minorities.

Rein: All Veni’s work developing rubrics and intuitions about companies that are worth working for/with is extremely important and her sharing this expertise is very valuable.

Veni: To learn more about how comfortable candidates/employees feel about talking about dissent within their organizations.

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Special Guest: Veni Kunche.

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01:16 - Brandon’s Superpower: Recognizing Others’ Superpowers and Spotting Potential Talent

09:23 - Brandon’s Personal Journey & Transformation Towards Humility

25:40 - The Importance of Community and Community Leaders

34:35 - Being Kind vs Being Nice

40:59 - Being Austistic and Being Visible

52:32 - Tech Is Political

Reflections:

Jamey: When someone gives you feedback it’s because they trust you that you’re going to do something about yourself and do better.

Brandon: Thinking about who is saying something.

John: The power we can embrace by talking about our personal history.

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Special Guest: Brandon Weaver.

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01:30 - Harini’s Superpower: Getting Sh*t Done

04:19 - Putting Technology to Use For Those Who Need it the Most

14:04 - Crisis Management and Rethinking Blueprints

39:45 - Duality: Humans As Interconnected Systems

48:16 - What do we do now (to get sh*t done)?

Reflections:

Amy: If we end up back where we were pre-pandemic, shame on us.

Rein: To make changes effectively, we need to go to the people we’re trying to help and figure out from their perspective what they need.

HindSight 28 on Change

Arty: Getting shit done on the huge, grand, level of looking at the crisis we’re currently in and how to move forward to build the future we want as humans.

Harini: The sense of urgency of highlighting the problem and how we need to come together to co-create systemic, sustainable solutions that set in place new fundamentals and new structures for the world that lies ahead.

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01:25 - Mia’s Superpower: Adaptability

05:31 - Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology

08:36 - Parenting While Having a Career in Tech

09:42 - Objectivity and Truth in Software Development

11:04 - Tech Parenthood (Cont’d)

24:21 - Tenure in Tech, Job-Hopping, and Juggling Parenthood

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." – Elizabeth Stone: teacher and author

44:05 - Self-Identity in the Tech Industry

55:36 - Diversity Hiring

Reflections:

Mia: Psychological safety and privilege.

John: “Just because I’m psychologically safe doesn’t mean everybody else is.”

Laurie: The dichotomy of Mia and Christina’s experiences of being parents in tech.

Christina: It is possible to remain optimistic that Moms in the United States will get better.

Rein: Comfort and guilt in diversity hiring.

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01:42 - Janeen’s Superpower: Storytelling

07:56 - The Wikimedia Foundation

11:04 - Empowering Communities To Tell Their Stories

19:53 - Creating a Wikipedia Page

22:07 - Approaching and Engaging Youth

27:10 - Staying Connected As An Organization

34:56 - Remote Working and Fostering/Maintaining Community

39:11 - Encouraging and Influencing Participation

47:31 - Janeen’s Move From Working at General Electric (GE) to The Wikimedia Foundation

Reflections:

Chanté: Making differences one edit at a time.

Jamey: The importance of mentorship as something that is empowering.

Rein: When a small system interacts with a larger system, it’s hard to change the larger system without being changed yourself.

Jessica: Greater Than Code as an open conversation.

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Special Guest: Janeen Uzzell.

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