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Highlights - ADAM ALTER - Author of Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology - Professor NYU’s Stern School of Business
Season 10
"So there are different parts of the brain responsible for liking and wanting. So wanting is unbelievably robust in the brain. In other words, the neural connections are very robust, and wanting is …
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
ADAM ALTER - Author of Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology - Anatomy of a Breakthrough
Season 1
Adam Alter is a Professor of Marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business and the Robert Stansky Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow. Adam is the New York Times bestselling author of Irresistible: The …
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Highlights - NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS - Author of Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society - Director of Human Nature Lab, Yale
Season 1
“We're not attempting to invent super smart AI to replace human cognition. We are inventing dumb AI to supplement human interaction. Are there simple forms of artificial intelligence, simple programm…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS - Director of Human Nature Lab, Yale - Author of Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
Season 1
Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is a social scientist and physician who conducts research in the areas of biosocial science, network science and behavioral genetics. He directs the Human Nature La…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Highlights - NICK BOSTROM - Author of Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies - Founding Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford
Season 1
"I think what we really face is an even more profound change into this condition where human nature becomes plastic in the sense of malleable, and we then have to think more from the ground up - What…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
NICK BOSTROM - Founding Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford - Philosopher, Author
Season 1
Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher with a background in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic, and artificial intelligence, as well as philosophy. He is the most-cited profes…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago