#18 - Chris Anderson | The Power of Infectious Generosity
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
00:13:12 - How Moloch has captured the Internet
00:30:50 - Role of News Media
00:37:09 - 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
♾️ The Mystery Experiment - a Study of Generosity
♾️ Against Empathy by Paul Bloom
♾️ Atheism 2.0 by Alain de Botton TED Talk
♾️ Liv's TED talk - The Dark Side of Competition in AI
♾️ The Giving What We Can Pledge
Credits
♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree
♾️ Produced & Edited by Raymond Wei
♾️ Audio Mix by Keir Schmidt