All Episodes
101 episodes · page 5 of 6-
What Makes Humans Special
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss various cultural and social artifacts that may be strong evidence for the idea human beings are "special" and not just another animal species. We discuss how technology enhances our capabilities, pushes the boundaries of what is possible, and how this is perhaps defining. Finally, we look at collective human intelligence, creativity, and imagination.
-
IT Moonlighting & Consumer Lives Matter
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss IT professionals and employees in other related career fields that can be done remotely, double or triple dipping working several jobs simultaneously, and tools that help people pull this off. We talk a bit about the right to death, then transition to the intricacies of capitalism and contemplate whether deceit is a required skillset within capitalism. Then we have a look at the major health and wellness factors plaguing many Americans, especially the more relatively poor. Finally, we discuss gamifying self-improvement, utilizing a grass roots movement and the natural propensity for groupism to build a counterculture against rampant consumerism.
-
Algorithms for Humanity & Metaverse Fail
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss hardened datacenters, algorithms that predict behavior being used for consumerism over humanism, IT experts and adults fidgeting and wasting time unknowingly, the sophistication of computers and hyper progress. We also discuss how the Metaverse is going to be one of the largest IT project failures of all time, as well as activating free will by understanding environmental determinism.
-
Hoarding & Self-Deprecation
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss the war in Ukraine, how sanctions are used and not used in geopolitics, our experiences with hoarders, stealing from a church, how some people can believe anything such as the idea that birds aren't real, the preaching of the prosperity doctrine and how to hack raffles to do a bit better than probability.
-
Endemics & The New Normal of Pandemics
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss endemic diseases and how based on livestock agriculture, land use, and globalization, pandemics are going to be the new normal. We explore the idea of natural empathy through understanding, how everyone has deficiencies, and sometimes it's a good idea to let kids get away with things. We finish off by talking about how some interests can bolster but also constrict imagination, and how world experience is the ultimate educational experience.
-
Battered Chef Syndrome & Human Rights
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss universal human rights and the vision of a world where every person can have a large collection of inalienable rights on which they could rely and what implications such a world would have on the quality of life. Right now, from which womb one emerges is the largest predictive factor in determining where one ends up in life, we would love to see this change, and rapidly. We again talk about food, diet, and the corporate contamination of what even food is. Lastly, we analyze the implications of misinformation leading to inaccurate beliefs, which leads to poor choices and actions.
-
Human Industrial Complex
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss the idea of building a grassroots movement where people join forces and work toward collectively improving their health and wellness by supporting and caring for one another. The trend here in the United States is socialism for the wealthy and dog eat dog free-market capitalism for everyone else. The reason we don't have universal healthcare in America is if we were to flip the switch and suddenly tens of millions of poor and extremely unhealthy patients entered the system, the healthcare system would be overwhelmed, and the truth of the horrific general health of the American public would be revealed. We'd have to cut military spending and corporate welfare to afford it. We discuss how this type of change may come about.
-
Building Your Best Brain
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we consider what type or kind of knowledge would be the most important to have. Since the capacity of the human brain is finite, how might we go about being the best stewards possible when it comes to what we do or don't allow into our brains? We talk about homelessness, the odd concept of hotel room deaths, and even contemplate the possibility of the eternal soul, and if it does in fact exist, what implications it would have on our lives.
-
Unlimited Human Potential
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss the miracle of our existence and the chain of events that had to occur for us to even exist. Human potential is so vast and broad it is beyond our imaginations. How human nature is to be empathetic and compassionate, and we are mostly revolted by the suffering of others with some exceptions. Lastly, we analyze what the collective goals of humanity should be (taking care of one another), and what they shouldn't be in (defining our lives through materialism).
-
Bright Side of Nukes & Cognitive Bias
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss the bright side of a Nuclear Holocaust and the bizarre brave new world of Cognitive Bias. We discuss bad managers we've had, probably everyone has had, cognitive biases, the prevalence of violence in our society and the difficulties navigating the deep complexities of modern life.
-
Round House Kicks, Tattoos & Mayan Temples
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss how technology can extend imagination in a particular domain, but also might stifle the imagination in the macro. We analyze American rightness through might and its various industrial complexes. There is a brief discussion about dominance and submission at different levels of human social structures, and we share a couple of personal stories and even a bad joke - sorry in advance!
-
Dr. Pee Pee & The Green Giant's Dick
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss Cyber Security, Geopolitics, and being a bit too serious. If the United States unilaterally decides to invade a country, let's say some country like Iraq or Afghanistan, who puts sanctions on our government and heads of large corporations like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin? Kris tells a story about his son on the playground and daycare, and Sean and Kris both discuss the situation in Ukraine and beyond.
-
Moral Failings of Our Time
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss the Moral Failings of Our Time and try to consider what aspects of our culture are ethically wrong, even if normal. We investigate the past and can easily judge the actions and beliefs of our ancestors as being highly immoral. But what things do we do and believe in contemporary society that we believe to be moral, but are in fact, highly immoral, but just don't see because they are socially normal?
-
Youngsters, Angry Birds & Worm Grunting
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss our older perspective on the younger people and render our unfair critique therein. We talk about education and educational technology, the pros, and cons, and what may be possible in the future. Then Kris tells a story about Infowars, Fox News, and a white-collar rhetoric war gone wild and high-tech. Lastly, we joke about a local man we see getting ready to go fishing for the day and being guilt-tripped by Sarah McLachlan into saving suffering animals.
-
Creativity Ending Exploitative Capitalism
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss various ways capitalism and consumerism work together as an extraction model for wealth and human toll therein. Beyond outlying the problem, Sean and Kris go through various ways of reimagining this paradigm and using it as an agent for positive change for the health and wellness of the American People. They go through some moral and social issues, talk a bit about massive wealth, social responsibility, and then into education. The discussion finishes off with a big idea of floating power plants for ocean liners and the thought experiment of human activity massively augmenting the lithosphere and atmosphere.
-
Anti-Aging Life Hacking & Technology
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss technology and discoveries in the aging process and upcoming anti-aging technologies on the horizon, and what implications this type of emerging technology may represent to humanity and civilization. We then have a deep look at human and artificial intelligence and machine capabilities, and some of the unnatural effects of applied technology. In our last segment, we brainstorm a potential idea for indoor food production at the home or apartment scale becoming practical and perhaps preferable.
-
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis & Language
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and the broader topic of language, its effect on culture, thought, and ideology. The effect language itself has on our minds and imaginations is profound. People that are multilingual have insight into the depth and importance of language, amongst other things.
-
AI Triage & Luck Via Skunk
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss a potpourri of ideas and Kris shares a story from way back in high school about popularity, luck, and a skunk. We also dwell on some absurdities we've encountered in life in general and within the Information Technology world. We also discuss Do Not Resuscitate Orders, and AI triaging patients, and quickly conclude that fact that death cures all diseases - what could possibly go wrong?
-
Deep Fakes & The Future of Reality
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss the cultural, social, and individual implications of how Deep Fake and related technologies threaten reality itself. Virtual, augmented, mixed, and other emerging realities may soon be capable of creating a blurred line between digital and analog reality and what that might mean for society. We also look at the USA government as a Kleptocracy, or otherwise a collection of industrial complexes that creates financial socialism for the ultra-wealthy and brutal free-market capitalism for everyone else. Perhaps it is time for a long-needed counterculture to emerge to help transition us toward a human industrial complex, one that puts people over profit and helps transition government power away from the Kleptocrats and back to We The People.
-
Coronavirus in the United States
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss Coronavirus in America and how in this case, probably not the type of Exceptionalism we would like to be known for as Americans. We look at why America is particularly vulnerable to pandemics and why Covid-19 has been particularly deadly for us. Going further, we address lessons not learned and how perhaps constant waves of novel pandemics may very well be the new normal, we and the world may be facing. Unless we are ready to make major changes in land use, our relationship to animals, and address deeply embedded cultural and moral failings, the suffering and death will continue and even intensify! Plus, we look at who and what is to blame.
