Dr. David Eagleman

Well, no, but for a couple of reasons.

One is that you know, and it triggers your red flag, and so that does not do anyone any good.

I see so many of my colleagues posting on LinkedIn these very obvious AI things, and it irritates me because I feel like I'm not going to spend my time reading that because of...

I call this the effort phenomenon, which is in psychology, we care a lot about things that seem like they took a lot of effort.

And there's something about seeing an AI post that's just irritating because it's so obviously AI.

That's a really interesting idea, the effort phenomenon.

Yeah, I've been writing about this for a while because it turns out there are psychology studies where if I offer you two pieces of art and one of them looks like, you know, let's say it's a red dot in the middle of a white canvas.

And the other one is, you know, bottle caps stacked up and glued in this great shape or whatever.

You'll pay much more for the thing that looks like it took a lot of effort.

People will pay more for a real diamond than a synthetic lab-grown diamond, which is exactly the same thing.

It's just carbon in a matrix.

But they feel like, oh, well, Mother Nature took hundreds of millions of years of effort on this one, but not over here.

It just took a few days in the lab.

So there's a million ways where we care about that a lot.

When it comes to this AI thing, yes, anybody who's just popping back something to you, it just feels like, all right, they took the path of least resistance, and I'm not so interested.

Right.

I want to know from a neuroscience perspective whether they benefit.

Presumably, they don't benefit too much either.

I mean, it's hard to know exactly how many times they went back and forth with it.

They could have said, hey, ChatGPT, thank you for this, but I'm kind of more of this person.