The Importance of Personality Space

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I have this idea of what I call singular people. There's nobody in their sort of vicinity in personality space. And so because they're such an unusual outlier, it's hard to generalize about them or predict what they're going to do. Do you feel like you're quite different than other people? Or do you actually feel like quite similar to others? Yeah, I don't know. Maybe both.

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What would happen if you chose to let ChatGPT control your life for a year? If products like ChatGPT help us (e.g.) to write something important, then should we give it credit as a co-author or merely act as though it's a high-powered Grammarly? How would you feel if you received a hand-written card from a romantic partner but later found out that everything they'd written had been authored by ChatGPT? How can we learn to get along with — and perhaps even form friendships with — people with whom we strongly disagree?

Dax Flame was one of the first YouTube stars. He acted in the movies 21 Jump Street and Project X, and has written three memoirs. After running out of money, he spent a few years working minimum wage jobs, but now at 31 he is attempting to become a full-time YouTuber again. Check out his YouTube channel, @Daxflame.

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