Dr. David Eagleman
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You give some idea and it says, oh, Stephen, that's the best idea I've ever heard.
You're a genius and blah, blah.
And that didn't last very long.
That moment...
Because nobody actually liked it.
So you're exactly right.
And I'm sure most listeners know this, but you can tell your AI to be brutally honest with you all the time.
You can tell them to do that all the time and it'll do that.
So you can establish the kind of person that you're talking to.
Here's the thing.
You're right, of course, people don't like to be wrong.
It can be socially embarrassing.
It can be uncomfortable.
And yet there's something very different when you're talking to your AI.
It's a very private thing.
And you say, hey, tell me why I'm brutally wrong.
And when it tells you, you think, oh, thank God it's telling me that instead of like a real human.
So I think a lot of that is alleviated with AI.
Yeah, okay.
Interesting.