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#148 Kenneth Stanley: Set The Right Objectives

2022/10/4
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Kenneth Stanley: 本书的核心论点是，设定目标在追求适度目标时是有效的，但在追求宏伟目标时却可能适得其反。作者认为，我们对评估和问责制的过度依赖，以及对指标的盲目崇拜，阻碍了我们发现通往目标的真正途径。许多伟大的成就并非源于预先设定的目标，而是源于偶然的发现和机遇。作者建议，在追求宏伟目标时，应该采用一种类似于进化论的迭代式方法，即尝试各种不同的方法，并从中选择有效的方案。同时，我们应该更重视“有趣性”和“新颖性”在创新中的作用，并允许人们表达他们对“有趣性”的主观判断。作者认为，现有的教育体系和企业文化都存在缺陷，它们过分依赖于目标和评估，这扼杀了创新。作者建议，我们需要改变现有的文化，允许人们表达不同的观点，并容忍失败。

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Kenneth Stanley discusses the paradox of objectives, explaining that while modest objectives are manageable, ambitious ones can lead to complications and unintended consequences.

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Artificial intelligence researcher and author Kenneth Stanley has argued that “as soon as you create an objective, you ruin your ability to reach it.” So what should you consider when thinking about your objectives, and what will set you up for success? On this episode Stanley discusses how to set the right objectives for your life, why we’re too tied to accomplishments, what role accountability plays in our education system, the value of peer review,  why transformative innovations are always counter intuitive, and so much more. Stanley is the co–author of Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective,  as well as the former Head of Core AI Research at Uber AI and the Open-Endedness Team Leader at OpenAI. He has also served as the Charles Millican Professor in Computer Science at University of Central Florida.

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