The Padverb Podcast with KMO

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The Padverb Podcast with KMO explores the interplay between technology, innovation, communication, and cognition, and examines the role knowledge networks and data-driven technologies play in helping ... more

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August 11, 2022 012 Better Than Nothing with Rob Brooks
Dr. Brooks is an evolutionary biologist, the author of two books ("Sex, Genes & Rock ‘n’ Roll" and "Artificial Intimacy"), and the founder of the Evolutionary Ecology of Sexual Reproduction Research Group at the UNSW, which group's research focuses on the big questions surrounding human sexuality. In this longer-than-usual conversation, KMO and Rob touch on a number of sensitive questions, such as: Is an excess male population a danger to society and its rulers? Was monogamy a stabilizing force allowing to channel free (and often destructive) male energy toward something positive? Are today’s incels correct in pointing out the inherent inequity of the sexual market? Is income inequality one of the drivers of involuntary celibacy? If so, might we be better served by addressing the root cause or providing accessible, if only crudely imitative, substitutes… that might still be better than nothing? 03:35 – Incels and the supply and demand problem of the mating market 09:47 – Young males taking risks, for good or ill 13:15 – Evolutionary psychology and its fans and skeptics on both ends of the ideological spectrum 18:10 – Christopher Ryan’s "Sex at Dawn" and the advent of monogamy 20:10 – "Chads," "betas," and the "Genghis Khans" 23:06 – Monogamy stabilizing society 27:45 – Incel language and the connection with economic inequality 30:20 – Aibo by SONY 32:10 – KMO reciting a scene from Steven Spielberg's “A.I.” 37:25 – Getting a family dog, and how dogs have changed humanity 40:00 – Whether machines can really do intimacy 41:40 – The symbiotic relationship between humans and dogs and the transactional properties of sex 45:30 – William S. Burroughs's “Words Of Advice For Young People” and a less-than-rosy view of the good old times 47:45 – How the world has changed since KMO's and Rob’s teenage years 49:52 – Enter the algorithms: making dating apps addictive 58:35 – Sex robots and how they are no way close to human 1:04:15 – Virtual reality sex giving sexbots a run for their money 1:07:50 – “Futurama” character dating a robot and the attendant motivational traps 1:09:26 – Dismissive views of artificial substitutes for sex and intimacy and why they might still be better than nothing Links: Robert Brooks: www.robbrooks.net | @Brooks_Rob KMO: en.padverb.com/kmo | @Kayemmo The Padverb Telegram Channel: t.me/padverbpodcast
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August 04, 2022011 Altay Shrugged with Sacha Altay
Sacha Altay is a cognitive scientist and researcher at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. His research is focused on misinformation and (mis)trust. In this not-to-be-missed conversation, Sacha and KMO discuss:
03:20 – The difference between dis- and misinformation
06:40 – The varying levels of trust in science and media
07:40 – Bias, introspection, and brainwashing (with sporadic references to US elections)
11:35 – The era of minimal effects, confirmation bias, and reputation management
17:30 – AI detecting misinformation
18:45 – Watching “Behind the Curve” and KMO’s unexpected connection with a "flat earth"-believing street
performer
21:40 – Examples of deprecating language to describe people and their beliefs
22:25 – Flat Earth Theory and its attractiveness
24:30 – Joe Rogan's dalliance with "horse medicine" (according to CNN, that is); his mainstream media haters
28:45 – Whether people should trust the mainstream new media
30:40 – Having a strong opinion on media personas you don’t follow
35:00 – Whether trust is tribal: whether we form derivative opinions
36:50 – Ayn Rand's hatred for Immanuel Kant and trusting one's network
40:10 – Misconceptions about misinformation
44:10 – Skeptics, news avoiders, and egocentric discounting (valuing one's own beliefs too much)
47:10 – KMO's media diet
51:00 – Reasons for the lack of studies on television news
51:55 – Limitations for use of ML/AI in media studies
54:00 – Needing more access
54:35 – Reprise: the difference between dis- and misinformation
55:10 – Misleading with truthful statements leading to false conclusions
56:20 – Filter bubbles created by social media algorithms and being exposed to diverging opinions
60:00 – Sacha’s concluding statement about valuing each other's opinions

Links:
Sacha: @Sacha_Altay |
sites.google.com/view/sacha-altay/ |
en.padverb.com/sacha.altay

KMO: @Kayemmo |
en.padverb.com/kmo
The Padverb Telegram Channel: t.me/padverbpodcast
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1h 14min
July 28, 2022010 The Age of Consilience with Dr Adam Izdebski
Dr Adam Izdebski is a paleo-scientist and historian. He leads a multi-disciplinary research group at the Max Planck Institute which explores climate change, historical epidemics and their causes, the economy of past European societies, early attempts at regional integration and their traces in today's landscape, and many other things. In this conversation, Adam and KMO dig very dip and unearth a bucketful of topics, including:
07:20 – Multidisciplinary studies, "Consilience" by E. O. Wilson, and non-overlapping magisteria, and unifying diverse positions
11:10 – Adam’s team's research scope and specialization
14:45 – The early globalization in the Mediterranean
15:55 – Bronze Age collapse and the multi-causal nature thereof
17:57 – Popularizing science
19:55 – Kyle Harper's “The Fate of Rome”
25:40 – Plagues in the Roman Empire, ancient DNA studies, and using the Black Death as a model for other pandemics
30:34 – How pathogens may spread and cause pandemics
34:20 – Intermission (KMO's solo riff)
41:15 – The geological epochs chart
47:45 – John Michael Greer's critique of the notion of the Anthropocene
52:10 – Humanity's role throughout the (geologically, very recent portion of the) history of our planet
59:35 – Three practical uses of the research work's results
01:02:40 – Engaging in public outreach
01:03:35 – The misanthropic aspect of humanity and staying optimistic

Participants:
Adam:
shh.mpg.de|
en.padverb.com/adamizdebski
KMO:
@Kayemmo |
en.padverb.com/kmo

Books and Articles Discussed:
"The Fate of Rome" by Kyle Harper
press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691166834/the-fate-of-rome
"Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge" by E.O.Wilson
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consilience_(book)
"The Myth of the Anthropocene" by J.M.Greer
resilience.org/stories/2016-10-06/the-myth-of-the-anthropocene/
Geological eras and epochs (visual aid):
i.imgur.com/TAeY5yw.jpg

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1h 11min
July 21, 2022009 Dolce & Cardano with Stefania Barbaglio
Stefania Barbaglio (Steffy B, @stefixy) is an international businesswoman, a podcast host, a keynote speaker, and a former fashion model. She also runs an award-winning PR-IR agency which has helped many a blockchain application-focused company. In this conversation, Steffy helps KMO go somewhere he has never ventured before as a host, subject-wise: the world of fashion. They discuss:
02:05 – Steffy's path from fashion to finance
05:00 – Becoming a podcast host interviewing crypto thought leaders
06:15 – The Cardano blockchain and the role of digital identities
09:05 – Charles Hoskinson (co-founder of the Cardano blockchain)
10:55 – Government, decentralization, and DAOs
13:40 – Blockchain applications outside the world of finance
15:20 – Fast fashion, overproduction, and buying second hand
19:25 – Environmental aspects of crypto mining
21:15 – Checking product authenticity with NFTs
23:55 – Blockchain platforms' UI and the Metaverse
28:25 – Learning from Zoomers in a changing world

Links:
Steffy B:
steffyb.io |
@stefixy
KMO:
en.padverb.com/kmo |
@Kayemmo
Padverb Telegram Channel:
t.me/padverbpodcast
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48min
July 14, 2022008 Hollywood Blockchain Party with Jesse Berger
Jesse Berger is a media and technology entrepreneur and also, a movie producer whose six films, combined, have generated over $850 million worldwide.
In this eclectic conversation, KMO and Jesse discuss:
01:20 – Studying film and getting into the biz
03:30 – What a film producer does and what the "executive" label means
06:20 – 'Oblivion' (2013) and why a graphic novel may be turned into a movie before getting published
13:20 – Why some movies credit dozens of producers
16:00 – The 2008 crisis, Bitcoin, and the dawn of the iPhone era
19:05 – Fast-forward to 2017: smart contracts and using the blockchain to increase transparency in the film industry
28:05 – Going "lower in the stack" and the genesis of the PKT network
33:15 – Decyphering the eclectic lingo: waterfall payments; IoT
34:25 – True proof-of-work vs premining
40:40 – Fostering an on-chain reward mechanism for sending and receiving data
43:20 – Smart contracts, the code-as-law paradigm, and the possible future of the legal profession
48:00 – Linking media production and distribution; evading the gatekeepers
51:25 - How the PKT network would work
54:05 – Similarities with other providers and the zero-base-price philosophy of the project
55:50 – Why speed issues are endemic in the industry
1:00:05 – Building the gig economy of internet sharing
1:09:05 – The real-world utility value of the blockchain
Links:
Jesse Berger:
www.linkedin.com/in/jesseberger00 |
instagram.com/jesse_berger
KMO:
en.padverb.com/kmo |
@Kayemmo
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1h 16min
July 07, 2022007 Licence to Feel with Richard Firth-Godbehere
Richard Firth-Godbehere is an independent researcher and consultant in the history, language, and science of emotions. He is also a witty, entertaining, charismatic, and "occasionally funny" man.
This conversation goes "all over the place" with stops at:
01:50 – Feelings throughout history and the changing vocabulary to describe them

04:15 – Narrating one's own book

07:15 – Convergent evolution in different religions' stance on desires

11:33 – Ashoka the Great and Buddha "the fat guy"

16:45 – Abiding neurotransmitters and their role in emotions

19:05 – Defining love

21:07 – Reading Marcus Aurelius vs laughing at proto-scientific papers on evolution

22:05 – Scientists moving things forward (despite lacking in eloquence)

25:20 – Desire-led need to know things and the scientific revolution

26:44 – Emotions in decision making and the archetype of Mr. Spock

33:30 – Chipping away at jobs, task by task; paying humans to observe their emotions

35:35 – Emotions being the hardest nut to crack in creating genuine "General AI"; needing bigger "roomfuls of computers"

38:25 – Solipsism 2.0 and the future of emotions

39:05 – Passing the Turing test vs being sentient

43:50 – Digital communications and the wielding of one's "offendedness level" as an argument

47:05 – Getting freaked out by new information technology, on a global and historical level

48:25 – Changing culture of letter-writing and interpersonal communication (and the oxytocin connection)

51:45 – Pursuing copycat happiness and letting Instagram and TikTok be our guide doing it

54:30 – Modern art, filters, attention, and social media apps

57:15 – TikTok being better than YouTube at guessing the user's interests

61:20 – Computers telling us what we really want

Links:
Richard Firth-Godbehere:
@DrRichFG
KMO:
@Kayemmo |
padverb.com/kmo

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1h 11min
June 30, 2022006 Truth is a Fallacy with Filip Dousek
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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1h 5min
June 23, 2022005 Social (In)securities with Max Osbon
Max Osbon is a mathematician, an athlete, and the founding partner at Osbon Capital Management.
This conversation covers:
02:10 – State of the crypto market (and KMO's alt-coin portfolio)
05:00 – Tokenizing real assets and the significance of USTC
06:45 – Lack of safe havens and inflation hedges
10:50 – Linking stagflation and complex systems theory
12:45 – Impact of geopolitics on the global economy
16:30 – Need for leadership, libertarian ideals, Stanley McChrystal's "Team of teams," and George Friedman's “The Storm before the Calm”
22:30 – (De-)globalisation, COVID-19, ASML, TSMC and why it's not so easy to re-localize semiconductor manufacturing
24:15 – Risks of an off-shored high-tech industry
29:40 – Zeke Hausfather's view of climate science and the doomsayers' secret desire for collapse
33:55 – Putting worrisome things in perspective
35:25 – Whether we've already experienced the bulk of the tech revolution
38:10 – The promise of tokenization with NFTs
41:10 – Regulating crypto and why regulation is needed for wider adoption
43:25 – Securities vs commodities
45:10 – James's question re: fighting corruption with the blockchain
46:30 – Balaji Srinivasan's upcoming book and why the bitcoin and the dollar are opposites
49:15 – Swallowing the pill and sticking around cities
50:40 – What Web3 really means
58:00 – Permissionless Swift alternatives
60:10 – Decentralization vs fragmentation on the blockchain
63:10 – Some men just wanting to watch the world burn and the promise of globalization

Links:
Max: mobile.twitter.com/maxosbon
Osbon Capital Management: osboncapital.com
KMO:
mobile.twitter.com/Kayemmo |
en.padverb.com/kmo

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1h 7min
June 16, 2022004 Deconstructing Decentralization with Douglas Lain
Conversation with Douglas Lain on:
01:45 Good old times
04:55 Doug's podcasting and publishing career
09:54 Producing a personal interview podcast under a corporate brand
11:40 The challenges of transitioning to a different brand
14:49 Hedging one's bets in the age of cancel culture
20:26 Listener engagement on YouTube vs in audio podcasts
23:00 Losing one's motivation for podcasting and how to avoid it
26:29 Putting in some unpaid labor to get the paying audience
28:40 Not having talked since over a year ago
32:56 Ted Kaczynski and the delusions of the right and the left
36:40 Sublation Media's take on the left's crisis and the opportunities it may afford
41:00 Oppressed media elites
44:40 Decentralizing the increasingly irrelevant media
50:05 Unpacking independence in 2 minutes or less

Douglas Lain: @douglain
Sublation Media: https://www.sublationmedia.com https://twitter.com/sublationmedia
KMO: padverb.com/kmo |
@Kayemmo
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1h 4min
June 09, 2022 003 KMO in DAO House with Jimmy D and Hannah Kirby
In this episode of the podcast, we are going to take a look at the concept of the DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization).
You will first (02:30) hear from Jimmy D, who is part of a group called the Uplift. The Uplift is an online world. It is a place where people gather together and build and it uses the game Minecraft as a game engine, but there's more going on here than just a multi-player Minecraft game. In fact, the Uplift is now governed as a decentralized autonomous organization. I won't steal any of Jimmy's thunder and explain why the Uplift chose to govern themselves as a DAO, but as you'll hear, his reasoning is very different from that of the second guest (46:30), Hannah Kirby, whose project, Indaod.io, is using a decentralized autonomous organization to manage vacation rental properties. Now, a DAO is not a magic wand. It doesn't eliminate all the problems that come from governing a large organization or a business, but DAOs do have some distinct advantages that we will hear about, starting my first guest, Jimmy D.
Jimmy D: https://twitter.com/kansai_krypto https://theuplift.world
Hanna Kirby: https://twitter.com/HannahK78096405 https://indaod.io
KMO: https://twitter.com/Kayemmo https://en.padverb.com/kmo
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1h 24min

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