EP130 Ken Stanley on Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
June 7, 2021
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Episode 130 · June 7, 2021
EP130 Ken Stanley on Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
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Ken Stanley and Jim talk about his wide-ranging book Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective. They cover the no free lunch theorem, exploitations vs exploration, the myth & issues of objectives, the room of all images & adjacent possible, the problems & dynamics of deception, the power of serendipity, gradients of interestingness, intuition & novelty search, social change & innovation, emergent education & AI insights, incrementalism, risk & reward, Ken's unique journal idea, and much more.
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