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Are "Vibes" Real?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Science of Vibe Checking

There is vibe checking going on actively like you're talking about Ben with the progress in neuroscience, but also in using machine learning and artificial intelligence. There are so many venture capital outfits and even massive trading firms that are trying to do vibe checks basically on individual stocks and on entire economic sectors. Couple that with a robust enough data set about previous behavior, and you get very close to predicting what a person will do. We've got three extremely plausible theories that help us explain what appears to be these messages from the unknown.

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