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Two Million Years in Two Hours: A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari

Your Undivided Attention

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The Problem of Hacking Human Feelings

When our feelings are perfectly getting this kind of pleasure or positive response, who's to say where the problem is? We're much easier to morally respond negatively when we know we're being constrained. And it actually gets easier and easier to simulate comments that would match us because our own language is down grating. So there's this weird loop where the smarter the technology gets, the dumber the humans get.

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