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#18 - Chris Anderson - The Power of Infectious Generosity

2024/3/6
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Win-Win with Liv Boeree

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What if we could harness the power of the internet to make kindness go VIRAL?

That's the topic of this conversation with Chris Anderson -- Chris has run TED (of the famous TED talks) for the last twenty years, and recently wrote a book called "Infectious Generosity", which seeks to understand the nature of human kindness, and find ways to make it spread in the digital age. A crucial issue in these divisive times!

Expect lots of evolutionary psychology, a dissection of why the media is broken, some deep internet history, and how to improve (and win at!) the attention game.

Chapters: 00:00:00) - Intro 00:02:20) - Infectious Generosity 00:13:09) - How the Internet Has Changed 00:30:50) - Role of News Media 00:37:08) - Evolution of Generosity 00:50:04) - Effective Giving 00:53:28) - Intent vs Consequence 01:01:30) - Religion and Generosity 01:08:59) - The Audacious Project 01:22:41) - Giving What You Can Pledge 01:26:54) - Is Chris Competitive? 01:36:35) - Future of TED

Links ♾️ Infectious Generosity by Chris Anderson https://www.infectiousgenerosity.org/) ♾️ Thinking Fast and Slow https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...) ♾️ Media Moloch Youtube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRz54...) ♾️ The Mystery Experiment - a Study of Generosity https://bigthink.com/the-present/gene...) ♾️ Against Empathy by Paul Bloom https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...) ♾️ Atheism 2.0 by Alain de Botton TED Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oe6H...) ♾️ The Audacious Project https://www.audaciousproject.org/) ♾️ Project Vesta https://www.vesta.earth/) ♾️ Liv's TED talk - The Dark Side of Competition in AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX_vN...) ♾️ The Giving Pledge - http://givingwhatwecan.org/winwin)

Credits ♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree ♾️ Produced & Edited by Raymond Wei ♾️ Audio Mix by Keir Schmidt

The Win-Win Podcast: Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins.