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So, um, i think that your thought is m we tell ourselves we want the information for its own sake. In fact, we are storing it away, im, for some end, and we don't know what that end is. I mean, it's interesting, because when you presented yourself, right? Why? Why do you want to know how many people listened to the podcast? You gave both of these answers. You first gave the i just want to know, and then later you gave tha, it might be useful, right? Im, so, so so let's say just about this piece of information, like so we can decide whether it's the pack rat thing or the good one. Im, is, do you think that you're your you've evolved to want this information for good ends, or for bad ends?

Wed just have to walk through it to figure out. I don't know. Right off the bat. Ah, so certainly it's true that people want to know what other people think of them. That is a very common thing. So you could say, we're talking, and other people have, they're listening, and i want to know what they think of us. Ah, and that fits into a much larger mual framework of wanting to know how you are perceived in the social world. And so that seems useful, if it's cheap, of course. So that seems justified in the sense that people might be overly focused on what other people think or hear about them, and they often estimate how much people care about them and are thinking about them. But still, when people do think about you, it might be nice to know what they think.