So you can pick whatever you want in between, you pretty much get an idea of how attempts to reform usually wind up in clusterfugs.Thank you for sharing that.
you'll be amused by what-- because I had great benefits at Apple, too. wind up watching daytime television.
Another thing I wanted to talk about on this topic of bad ideas was that a lot of times the things that people have told me, that things people have told me are good ideas wind up not being worth anything at all.And what I have found continuously is that when I follow my gut instincts t they lead me to good places like hanging out with Diddy for one night.
scientific literature, you see the same mistake made over and over again. This was a paper that was wind up being inconclusive. Um do this over and over and over again and you see
what's happening inside our own skulls but it's a slippery fish that evades our grasp. I think I'm going to do this and I then I wind up doing something else. Or one day I think that buying a certain kind of car tomorrow is going to make me happy and then it turns out thatit makes me miserable. We're very poor at predicting our own mental behavior. So, to make a long story short, we have -- tend
a Tucson El Paso leg. I veer off the highway onto an isolated farm road curving along the Mexican border and wind up in a desert choked with cactus and brush. This is my ideal drivingscenario. Nobody to hit. The air conditioner has perished, so it's hot as blazes. I roll down the window and
Yeah, just sounded good. will wind up almost everywhere with that.
They see it in an MRI scanner getting very active. We wind up in chronic stress.
And if you fall through the ring of neutrons vertically, you wind up in Wonderland. You wind up on the other side of forever. It's a gateway to a wormhole.
and learn that lesson or that were a dumb idea in a different time but didn't work for reasons that now would work? To wind up here, and again to come back to the notion of too soon, I do tell the story of the proto social companies.
But it's hard to really know-- despite all the resources out there, it's hard to know what it takes to produce a book if you're doing it all for the first time. I wind up with a substantial manuscript.
But it's hard to really know-- despite all the resources out there, it's hard to know what it takes to produce a book if you're doing it all for the first time. You wind up realizing, oh, I talked about this thing there, and I also talked about it here, but unfortunately, I used different words in the two places.
Knowing that you gave something that gives you joy is so much better to receive than receiving something that someone has a feeling caused They wind up leaving having the work infuse their entire social system because it impacts everything.
So they won't listen to political scientists necessarily, but they certainly will listen to economists. you wind up actually becoming a superstar.
So if you think about what that means, the algorithm, if you've trained on a lot of historical data, what it will do is given a new set you wind up with an algorithm that very strongly reinforces the status quo.
She's sitting back there. I wind up as Vice President for Advanced Systems in the bank, OK? Now, we had all kinds of programmers in the bank.
I wind up the book like this.
We wind up cutting half the sketches from every animatic just because it's too much time, not as funny, doesn't play, complication of production,
You wind up with a Ringworld with a wok-shaped lid, and a hole in the lid, if you're going to make it move.
You wind up with a different kind of tyranny.
You wind up with the kind of not excess concentration of political power, but an excess concentration of economic power.
so she might wind up being a great multitasker.
But you wind up , for me anyway, getting so much out of the process.
And so they wind up selling to Medicare Advantage, or sometimes to employers for benefits.
if we wind up having those same conversations within the realm of biology.
And then you wind up in what I call manipulative insincerity, the dreaded lower left-hand quadrant.
And you have to wind up dumping data into a holding pen called Clarity and then reconfigure the data so you can actually
that we wind up going through to end up with the pretty telescope photos that everybody knows.
And we very oftentimes wind up knowing each other in huge swaths.
Or we could wind up having be treated like pets.
And I usually wind up crying by the time I got to the end of it, like publicly crying.
Even if the physical pain is gone, I may still have-- this stuff is going to help me with my mental pain. So you can easily wind up with a psychological addiction that brings you coming back to anything that relieves pain, which includes alcohol, marijuana. It's not a coincidence that these drugs either block pain or they increase pleasure, which is another way of distracting
And we've-- we wind up at this cafe.
So we wind up saying bad things.
So you wind up having delays and costs-- again, even if you're just moving money internally across borders.
So people wind up leaving this story-- Josh Cohens are inherently narcissistic.
I think it may wind up in court, actually.
And so you wind up having to command at minimum one sol increments.
And we wind up inadvertently making the world a worse place rather than a better place.
So what we wind up having is multiple judges seeing caseloads of defendants that are similar on average, and yet the judges differ a lot with respect
And then we wind up with a more divided society.
And you wind up being proud of it.
Knowing that you gave something that gives you joy is so much better to receive than receiving something that someone has a feeling caused And then they wind up responding to me, no, no, no, it's not that bad.
And you wind up with a government, which is both financially hobbled and politically divided.
Except it turns out they don't actually go back to college. What they wind up doing is creating their own intellectual salons or attending other intellectual salons, like the Davos World Economic Forum or PopTech or South by Southwest or the Milken Global Conference, or a whole variety of these kinds of conference circuits.
How did you wind up selecting the list?
with was it would wind up there pretty
uh otherwise we will wind up like Mickey this is Mickey realizing that he should have done this research a long time
But I wanted to wind up these remarks with things that were so strange that I never even thought about them before encountering this book.
But then you wind up being up against yourself.