Dr. Jamil Zaki

Again, I don't imagine that there'll ever be a social media feed where everybody has to post and you see an actually representative sample of the world. But if we could, I do think that that would generate a more hopeful perspective because the truth is more hopeful than what we're seeing.

Wow. I love that question. I think that there is, I could imagine an opportunity for that. I think one One roadblock that I don't think is insurmountable, but that you would need to face in that really fascinating goal is that AI models are, of course, products of the data that we feed them.

Wow. I love that question. I think that there is, I could imagine an opportunity for that. I think one One roadblock that I don't think is insurmountable, but that you would need to face in that really fascinating goal is that AI models are, of course, products of the data that we feed them.

Wow. I love that question. I think that there is, I could imagine an opportunity for that. I think one One roadblock that I don't think is insurmountable, but that you would need to face in that really fascinating goal is that AI models are, of course, products of the data that we feed them.

And so if, you know, basically AI models eat the Internet, right, swallow it and then give it back to us in some form, to the extent that the Internet is asymmetrically weighting is overweighting negative content and cynical content, then AIs that swallow that will reflect it as well.

And so if, you know, basically AI models eat the Internet, right, swallow it and then give it back to us in some form, to the extent that the Internet is asymmetrically weighting is overweighting negative content and cynical content, then AIs that swallow that will reflect it as well.

And so if, you know, basically AI models eat the Internet, right, swallow it and then give it back to us in some form, to the extent that the Internet is asymmetrically weighting is overweighting negative content and cynical content, then AIs that swallow that will reflect it as well.

I think that, and I could imagine, and it's blowing my mind in real time to think about, but you could imagine retuning the way that AI takes information to account for negativity bias and to correct. This is what you're getting at, I think, right? To correct for that negativity bias and then produce an inference that is less biased, more accurate, and less cynical.

I think that, and I could imagine, and it's blowing my mind in real time to think about, but you could imagine retuning the way that AI takes information to account for negativity bias and to correct. This is what you're getting at, I think, right? To correct for that negativity bias and then produce an inference that is less biased, more accurate, and less cynical.

I think that, and I could imagine, and it's blowing my mind in real time to think about, but you could imagine retuning the way that AI takes information to account for negativity bias and to correct. This is what you're getting at, I think, right? To correct for that negativity bias and then produce an inference that is less biased, more accurate, and less cynical.

and then give that as a kind of digest to people, right? So don't make me go through my social media feed, go through it for me, correct, right, de-bias it, and then give it to me in a more accurate way. That's an incredible idea.

and then give that as a kind of digest to people, right? So don't make me go through my social media feed, go through it for me, correct, right, de-bias it, and then give it to me in a more accurate way. That's an incredible idea.

and then give that as a kind of digest to people, right? So don't make me go through my social media feed, go through it for me, correct, right, de-bias it, and then give it to me in a more accurate way. That's an incredible idea.

It's a brilliant question and you're right. I mean, I think a lot of us are very tuned into the metal side of life and heavy metal is great, but life is not all metal. So how do we retune ourselves? I think about this a lot in part because over the last several years, I haven't just been studying cynicism. I've been trying to counteract it in myself and in others.

It's a brilliant question and you're right. I mean, I think a lot of us are very tuned into the metal side of life and heavy metal is great, but life is not all metal. So how do we retune ourselves? I think about this a lot in part because over the last several years, I haven't just been studying cynicism. I've been trying to counteract it in myself and in others.

It's a brilliant question and you're right. I mean, I think a lot of us are very tuned into the metal side of life and heavy metal is great, but life is not all metal. So how do we retune ourselves? I think about this a lot in part because over the last several years, I haven't just been studying cynicism. I've been trying to counteract it in myself and in others.

So I've focused on practical everyday things that I can do. And I guess they come in a bunch of categories. I'm going to try to tick through them, but I really want to hear your thoughts. The first has to do with our mindsets and the ways that we approach our own thinking. So I like to engage in a practice that I call being skeptical of my cynicism.

So I've focused on practical everyday things that I can do. And I guess they come in a bunch of categories. I'm going to try to tick through them, but I really want to hear your thoughts. The first has to do with our mindsets and the ways that we approach our own thinking. So I like to engage in a practice that I call being skeptical of my cynicism.

So I've focused on practical everyday things that I can do. And I guess they come in a bunch of categories. I'm going to try to tick through them, but I really want to hear your thoughts. The first has to do with our mindsets and the ways that we approach our own thinking. So I like to engage in a practice that I call being skeptical of my cynicism.

So that is in essence, taking tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and applying them to my cynical inferences. So again, my default mode, my factory settings are pretty suspicious. I want to lay my cards on the table. It's ironic given what I study, but there we are. So I often find myself in new situations, suspecting people, mistrusting people, wondering if they might take advantage of me.