in 2007 2007 what's this guy talking about this innocuous Year 2007 well here's what happened in 2007 the year kicked off atthe muscone center in San Francisco when one Steve Jobs introduced something called the iPhone beginning a process by
or isolate machine learning algorithms, or isolate user-generated content, or isolate personalization, any one of these things seems totally innocent and innocuous on its own. But when you start combining them together and have advertising incentives with user-generated content, with personalization, with ML algorithms,
The value, to the United States, of these applications has been calibrated about five years ago. And it sounds innocuous .
They're massive. But the Taliban spent weeks dynamiting those Buddhas out of that cliff face. For an ideology as innocuous as Buddhism, that's pretty impressive. And Long Now does have an ideology of long-term thinking.
And that's the kind of innocuous version. And then the non-innocuous one is subconscious and even conscious bias. We're here in New York City.
So I think that's what I would say to teenagers. They become more innocuous .
DARPA pumped an enormous amount of money into its urban operation programs, and it created a system called Combat Zones That See. It's a very innocuous sounding program title.
And then you should be good to go. It seems so innocuous .
I also think that there are huge opportunities for new technology platforms, things like Clubhouse, where people can come and engage, and they're going to just find that they A lot of things are pretty innocuous .
And it is a war. Typically we do this with something as innocuous as paying attention to the breath, right?
what to do with it. And that's the kind of innocuous version. And then the non-innocuous one is subconscious and even conscious bias.
OK, so that's all techniques we talked about for cheap restaurants. or even spicy-- seems like a very innocuous word, spicy-- on the menu, here are some examples of what I mean.
Jeeves asked. 'Yeah, but not old and lame,' Toby replied. 'I love it.' It seemed innocuous enough, but Jeeves was happy to oblige, so we took Toby's Matrix. I let Jeeves ride shotgun and I packed myself into the back seat.
That was pretty exciting. I think there's always some weirdly innocuous image at least in the beginning.
about tradeoffs and that um you know money corrupts power corrupts whether on Wall Street or in the seemingly innocuous world of travel writing and um those things affect other other people too so
the BMW, all these markers of success that I'd been trying to collect. And it started out maybe a little more innocuous , and towards the end, it got pretty dark. There were a lot of drugs involved.
And that one actually does have a Mars face on it. And I personally found them to be somewhat innocuous .
Now, that seems pretty innocuous , benign, not a big deal, right?
That was pretty exciting. Josh: And it would have an image that was very innocuous , very kind of nonthreatening.
are dangerous can be brought together and turned into something not only innocuous , but necessary for human life. And so this is not unusual, what you're describing. I mean,
And it doesn't take long to kind of have that sort of innocuous information, undo the privacy promises of these anonymity methods.
I was sending a message to a friend in Europe when I typed the seemingly innocuous word "shoe." And it was the first time that I noticed
video, and what her favorite types of ice cream were. Yeah, just a stream of innocuous content, basically. Yeah, and it just made me think, my god.
The other one that is, I think, tied to the specific impact on attention is uncertainty. And so in the lab, we do this in a very kind of innocuous way. People come in and we say, OK, you're going to do an experiment now.
But the idea that something so traumatic was happening to this person that we haven't met yet to such innocuous music like Kenny Loggins and Chicago.
And what he essentially meant was that if you could just solve equations large enough-- so this very innocuous equation that I have written
and it was about very small, little, innocuous things that had massive impacts.
started Distributing nationally and this what they did is says let's make our beer the liquid is innocuous and
One was about a month ago, and it basically said, here are 18 apparently innocuous attributes that if I know them about you, they
So that is a lot of why how to begin taking the clause out of these conversations matters, whether it's something innocuous like jam or abortion.
Taking this interest in issues of context and cultural specificity further, the new Emoji Series evaluated the ubiquitous, seemingly innocuous images that we
And the police have just been amazing negotiators in cities across the country, putting this language like so deeply embedded that looks innocuous
which is why the more the conversation gets going, the stuff that comes out, the innocuous information could make all the difference in the world
And here you will find a wide range in the severity of offenses, from quite serious like aggravated robbery, to relatively innocuous .
It's a little hot on the bus. But I'm afraid to take off my jacket. I don't want to pull out my iPhone and listen to songs. I just wanna remain as innocuous as possible.
And then the brewers then followed that and said, "Okay, we're going to raise the bar as well." Otherwise, it was sort of a not-so-innocuous