#Intelligence
29 episodes-
Gaming IV - Players or Pawns
In this, the fourth episode of our gaming saga featuring gaming enthusiast Shaday Agosto-Vázquez, we explore why play isn't just something that children do; it's a fundamental mechanism of human life. From kids who invent games to cope with the world, to adults navigating layered systems of rules, incentives, and power, gaming reveals to us how society actually functions.
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The Logoharp - Shaping the Present
Can technology unlock a deeper sense of human connection, or will it continue to drive us apart? Kris Tyte and Sean Snodgrass are joined by Arielle Emmett, author of "The Logoharp", a visionary sci-fi novel that explores identity, media manipulation, transhumanism, and geopolitical topics. This episode tackles the impact of automation, artificial intelligence, power structures, and humanity's future. With personal experience stories, global perspectives, and literature references, they question how society can reconcile progress with empathy. We invite you to challenge yourself and rethink everything from politics to morality and identity.
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Our AI Future is Here
What happens when artificial intelligence surpasses human capabilities not just in work, but in creativity, empathy, and even love? Hosted by Kris Tyte with guest speaker Chris Hooper, we engage in a deep discussion on technology, Humanity, and Purpose. This powerful, compelling conversation explores the philosophical, ethical, and economic implications of AI’s growing dominance. We delve into topics like deepfakes, harmful misinformation, and the potential of AI-created religions. Dive into this thought-provoking journey as two minds unpack the accelerating future and humanity’s role within it.
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Useful Satire, Memes & Humans as Pets
If you have a love for satire and unfiltered banter, you are in the right place. In this comedic yet thought-provoking episode, our hosts, Kris Tyte and Sean Snodgrass, delve into the world of satirical comedy. They also explore the unsettling idea of AI-personalized content pumping you full of dopamine and living in a world where humans are pets for AI systems. Each part is hilarious yet insightful; this episode will leave you laughing… and thinking deeply about the world around you.
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Gaming for Good & Armies of AI Agents
In this philosophical walk-and-talk episode of Positive Pedestrian, the hosts navigate a variety of topics, including Best Buy's decline, awkward massage experiences, the rise of digital NPCs, and AI companions. They delve deeply into the subject of "technology philanthropy," exploring applications designed to encourage community involvement, as well as the ethics surrounding the use of augmented humans. The discussion expands on what it means to assign agency in a world filled with technological advancements. It's a raw, thoughtful, and at times hilarious conversation about technology, Minecraft charity work, and digital identities.
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AI's Fate Council for Humanity
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, the hosts embark on an intriguing journey, discussing a range of topics, from Batman's cringe-worthy voice to TikTok bans. Our host, Krist Tyte, shares insights about a book he is writing: a sci-fi narrative that involves AI, predictions, and the controversial idea of cloning Jesus for global cultural manipulation. They delve into the implications of AI-generated futures, corporate control facilitated by a manufactured messiah, and the blurred lines between marketing and religion. Prepare for tangents on Batman's voice, TikTok censorship, and the future of digital messiahs.
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Space Karens & Government Corruption
In this entertaining and engaging episode of Positively Pedestrian, our hosts are joined by the witty and insightful Sam Stanton. Together, they discuss a wide range of topics, including the deep-rooted issues of religious hypocrisy and systemic corruption, as well as the surprising fact that koalas can contract chlamydia. No topic is off-limits as they delve into the complexities of the NSA Prism controversy, the American middle class, and even dogs with thumbs. This episode offers a delightful mix of chaos, laughter, and intellectual insight.
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Future of Digital Labor & Recycling Robots
In this thought-provoking episode of Positively Pedestrian, the hosts explore the complex issues surrounding automation, gig economies, and AI recycling techniques. They discuss the topic of E-waste, micro-jobs, and blockchain-based gig contracts. This discussion goes beyond what technology is capable of; it raises important questions about what technology should do.
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Race to the Bottom via Ignorance
In this thought-envoking episode of Positively Pedestrian, the hosts delve into topics ranging from poor navigation skills to humanity's biggest flaw's. This episode discusses the great filter idea, the potential dangers of AI, and the moral shortcomings of business models.
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Artificial Horizons - AI & Human Knowledge
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we embark on a fascinating journey through the interplay of AI and human creativity, pondering the possibilities of archiving our collective wisdom before AI reshapes our knowledge landscape. Join us as we explore innovative preservation methods, debate the role of AI in creativity, and discuss the philosophical implications of AI as a dominant force in knowledge generation.
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FTX Monkey Business & Eat the Rich
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss the indictment and extradition of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried charged with fraud, money laundering, the downstream effects of one of the largest financial frauds of all time and the financial house of cards the global economy is built upon. Then we entertain the thought experiment of the wealthy and powerful in America turning on each other and what this type of family feud would look like in today's bizarro world of wealth and power distribution. Next we move into influence pedaling and clever bribery schemes in politics allowing the enrichment of politicians. Fiat currencies and debt as wealth global schemes, followed by more examples and remedies to deal with a wide range of monkey businesses.
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AI Sentience & Layers of Misinformation
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss AI Sentience, AGI, and a variety of causes and effects of misinformation from the potential effects on the individual mind all the way to state-sponsored information warfare. We discuss the US Government as a Kleptocracy masquerading as a democracy, and patriotism gone wild. The overall conclusion is there is little human value overall in misinformation, but many opportunities for abuse and domination of the mind.
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Concerted Cultivation & Positive Change
In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss consciously positively influencing ourselves and others by having a core disposition of positivity. Augmenting our environments, surroundings, and interactions with the intent to have a consistent positive influence on ourselves and thereby others. Then we transition into a nostalgic conversation about books and childhood memories of making brown paper bag book covers and finding treasures in the form of paper scraps.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
