Greater Than Code Mandy Moore

02:12 - Isa’s Superpower: Being a Bridge



RailsBridge
Bridge Foundry – They’re Hiring !!


08:56 - Community Learning



Asynchronous Communication


Discord

Cultivating a Leadership Pipeline
Transparency
“Many hands make light work.”


19:16 - Pivoting From Rock’n’Roll to Software Engineering: Software + Music



Gigwell: Talent Booking
Everything Relates to Tech Somehow


27:57 - Grappling with Impostor Syndrome


Reflections:


Damien: Community over architecture.


Casey: Community and mentorship.


Isa: Talking to other engineers re: non-code + community and sustainability.


Laurie: Finding new ways to collaborate in a remote/pandemic world.


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02:05 - Laura’s Superpower: Problem Solving


04:07 - What to Expect When You’re Expecting Robots



Check out our interview with Laura’s coauthor: Greater Than Code Episode 216: Robot and Human Collaboration with Julie Shah
Where is human collaboration with robots heading?


06:59 - The Human/Robot Partnership



Robot Personification
Positives and Negatives
Robots Will Never Be Perfect
Making Our World “Robot Compatible”


14:34 - Human Behavior Towards Robots; Vice-Versa



HitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot, gets beheaded in Philadelphia
Marty the grocery store robot is a glimpse into our hell-ish future
The robot waiters in this Japanese cafe are controlled by people with paralysis


20:38 - Robots as “Social Entities”



Safety Transcending Competition
Contextualization


Observable
Predictable
Directable



24:43 - How Media Affects The Way People View Robots



Science-Fiction Expectations


26:39 - How Humans Can “Update” Themselves: Experiencing Robotics



Direct Exposure


28:23 - Robots as “Social Entities” (Cont’d)



Vigilance Decrement
Communication Problems
Change Agent by Daniel Suarez
What Robots/Humans Will/Should? Expect From Eachother


39:52 - Will and, if so, when will autonomous cars become the standard?



Swiss Cheese Model


Reflections:


John: What is the right level of empathy for social entities?


Jamey: Being in the process of consciously creating new social norms and thinking more thoroughly about who you could be hurting with your actions.


Push, the talking trash can, makes his final appearance after 19 years at Walt Disney World


Casey: Treating certain social entities in different ways; i.e. a Roomba and a dishwasher. And, the way you have to think about who is outside autonomous cars: not just the passengers. Also, we should be on the lookout for robotaxis!


Laura: Not wanting robots in the future to look too much like people.


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02:21 - Julie’s Superpower: Working Really Hard and Maintaining Focused Attention on Things for a Long Period of Time


04:25 - Robotics and Working in Artificial Intelligence (AI)



What To Expect When You're Expecting Robots: The Future of Human-Robot Collaboration (Julie and Laura Major’s book)


11:10 - Structuring and Optimizing the World for Machines, AI, and Robots



The Turing Test
Labeled Data
Teslas vs Airplanes
Mode Confusion
Ten challenges for making automation a "team player" in joint human-agent activity


26:10 - Understanding Output and Building Calibrated Trust



Mental Models


33:39 - Robots and Humans in Public Spaces



Predictability
Directability
Standardization
Infrastructure
Safety Imperatives
Future of Work Implications
Joint Activity


The Shannon Model



51:41 - What To Expect When You're Expecting Robots: The Future of Human-Robot Collaboration (Book Discussion)


54:40 - More on Human/Machine Collaboration:



Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology
Reinforcement learning with human teachers: Evidence of feedback and guidance with implications for learning performance
Evaluating fluency in human–robot collaboration


Reflections:


Rein: There may be a sense in which AI or ML systems are categorically different from the sorts of systems we’ve tried to control in the past because you can’t characterize the variety of the system anymore just by observing its inputs and outputs.


Damien: Artificial intelligence is not human intelligence, nor should it be. The goals are making systems and human lives better; not making the computer better.


Julie: Aim for mediocrity!


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01:41 - Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’



Abeba Birhane on a person is a person through other persons
Cartesian Thinking
Individualism


13:59 - Predicting How People Behave and Act via Machine Learning is Ethically Flawed



“Measuring” People
Simon’s Ant
Abstraction


Greater Than Code Episode 038: Category Theory for Normal Humans with Dr. Eugenia Cheng
Order Out of Chaos by Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers

Collecting Data
Confirmation Bias


34:21 - Examining Machine Learning Models and Data



Means Testing
Generalized Empathy


“When you get rid of what you don’t want, you do not necessarily get what you do want and you may get something you want a lot less. It is that simple…..anyone that ever watches television knows that!” – Russell L. Ackoff



“Scoring” People Perpetuates Stereotypes
Acurracy Confirms Bias


50:09 - Important Ideosyncracies and Contaminating Factors



Seeing and appreciating the potential to be different in every person in every situation.
The ability to tease apart existing cultural ideas around identity and humanity.
Taking concepts from different but related fields and seeing their connectedness and bringing them together into a whole that is more than the sum of their parts.
Seeing consequences that don’t belong to any one cause.


Reflections:


Mando: Cartesian thinking and worldview is embedded in us.


Avdi: “Contaminating factors.”



“Dive into yourself to find yourself.”



Rein: Jainism has gotten this right for centuries.



The Elephant and the Blindfolded Men Parable
The Theory of Conditioned Predication or Contigency
The Theory of Partial Standpoints


Jessica: Giving the Cartesian program credit for what it’s good for: using science as a way to break things down into parts and studying them deeply; we’ve learned a lot.


Abeba: It’s not all bad. BUT, we forget to put the pieces back together and acknowledge reality.


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01:26 - Rylan’s Superpower: Helping People & Giving Back to Community



“The rising tide lifts all boats.”


03:01 - The Righteous Mind / Making and Rationalizing Choices



Jonathan Haidt
Moral Psychology
The Happiness Hypothesis (The Elephant Metaphor)
Social Intuitionism


09:11 - An Example of a Moral Reaction (CW Beastiality)


10:26 - Humans as Individuals vs Humans as Species / Increasing Group-Level Cohesion



Homo Duplex
Transactional Leadership vs Transformational Leadership
T-Groups: Resources for Interpersonal Skill Development


19:43 - Bridging the Gap Politically



Thinking Empathatically
“Addressing the Elephant”
CivilPolitics.org: Educating the Public on Evidence-based methods for improving inter-group civility
How One Man Convinced 200 Ku Klux Klan Members To Give Up Their Robes


27:59 - Looking at Morality



The WEIRD Culture (western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic)
5 Main Foundations


Care vs Harm
Fairness vs Reciprocity
Loyalty vs Betrayal
Authority vs Subversion
Purity/Sanctity vs Degradation


The Omnivore’s Dilemma

Liberty vs Oppression


YourMorals.Org




38:55 - Morality Binds and Blinds / Group Cohesion



Haidt: humans are 90 percent chimp and 10 percent bee
Sanctitity


Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain De Botton



48:37 - Moving Forward / Fixing Divisiveness / Welcoming People w/ Different Viewpoints



Yin and Yang
APA Convention Keynote 2016 ft. Jonathan Haidt
Mani (prophet) / (Manichaeism)
Anti-Intellectualism


Reflections:


Damien: The Happiness Hypothesis (The Elephant Metaphor): Reflecting on the elephant.


Rylan: Finding a middle ground.



“The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose; Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart; If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease.” ― Jianzhi Sengcan



John: The value of conservative viewpoints vs liberal viewpoints.


Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath


More Resources:



The Ezra Klein Show
inter-group civility (Large potential list of remedies)
Jonathan Haidt: The Coddling of the American Mind
The Political Compass
Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives (TED Talk)


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Special Guest: Rylan Bowers.
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CONTENT WARNING: Eating Disorders, Substance Abuse & Addiction


01:12 - Cher’s Superpower: Making and Collecting Hot Sauce



Gastroparesis
Hobby vs Coping Mechanism


04:33 - Good Ideas Can Come From Anywhere



Drive to Execute
Becoming a Mentor/Leader
Curiosity and Understanding the Big Picture
Seeking Feedback From Others While Introspecting Feedback From Yourself


12:50 - Bravery, Enduring, and Overcoming; Eradicating Stigmas and Breaking Stereotypes



Impostor Syndrome
Blowing the Top Off Gatekeep-y Assumptions in Tech
Rawness and Integrity
Nader Dabit & Kurt Kemple
“You’re not alone,” “I’m not special,” and “You can get here too.”
Using Your Journey to Empower Yourself and Others
MARLON CRAFT | FUNK FLEX | #Freestyle140


30:12 - Struggle, Opportunity, and Recognizing White Privilege



Activating Empathy
Manifesting Goodness


Reflections:


John: The incredible power we can have as people when we claim our story rather than deny it.


Rein: There is a huge potential for empathy between people with a lot in common, and it’s just about unlocking the potential that already exists.


Cher: Empathy is the glue that holds everything together.


Jerome: The skills transfer of experience.


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