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Lionel Page

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Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

And thirdly, if status is one of the key things where you can increase happiness of individuals, well, you can't increase the happiness of the country because status is those who have it and those who don't have it. It's a zero-sum game. So you can't increase status of everybody.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

Look, I find it fascinating. And once again, I think it's fascinating because We have these big questions. What is the meaning of life? What am I meant to do? I mean, some people don't care, but some people care. Some people think, what should I do? What would give sense to my life, et cetera. Some people make big life decisions.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

Look, I find it fascinating. And once again, I think it's fascinating because We have these big questions. What is the meaning of life? What am I meant to do? I mean, some people don't care, but some people care. Some people think, what should I do? What would give sense to my life, et cetera. Some people make big life decisions.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

Look, I find it fascinating. And once again, I think it's fascinating because We have these big questions. What is the meaning of life? What am I meant to do? I mean, some people don't care, but some people care. Some people think, what should I do? What would give sense to my life, et cetera. Some people make big life decisions.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

They go to foreign countries and work, et cetera, in poor countries to dedicate their lives to some causes, et cetera. Why do we have these feelings? And why don't we understand? Why are these kind of mysteries? And here again, we are in the thing where evolution gives us the feelings that guides our decisions for us to navigate the world. But evolution didn't need to tell us why we have them.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

They go to foreign countries and work, et cetera, in poor countries to dedicate their lives to some causes, et cetera. Why do we have these feelings? And why don't we understand? Why are these kind of mysteries? And here again, we are in the thing where evolution gives us the feelings that guides our decisions for us to navigate the world. But evolution didn't need to tell us why we have them.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

They go to foreign countries and work, et cetera, in poor countries to dedicate their lives to some causes, et cetera. Why do we have these feelings? And why don't we understand? Why are these kind of mysteries? And here again, we are in the thing where evolution gives us the feelings that guides our decisions for us to navigate the world. But evolution didn't need to tell us why we have them.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

And so part of the mystery is that because now we kind of try to think about why we have this, but we have not been given the tools because understanding why we have these feelings is not in itself helpful. And actually, I was saying before that you have a convergence between cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence. And it's exactly the same thing in artificial intelligence.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

And so part of the mystery is that because now we kind of try to think about why we have this, but we have not been given the tools because understanding why we have these feelings is not in itself helpful. And actually, I was saying before that you have a convergence between cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence. And it's exactly the same thing in artificial intelligence.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

And so part of the mystery is that because now we kind of try to think about why we have this, but we have not been given the tools because understanding why we have these feelings is not in itself helpful. And actually, I was saying before that you have a convergence between cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence. And it's exactly the same thing in artificial intelligence.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

If you design a computer program to do a task, You don't need the computer program to know why it's doing the task. So if you design a computer program to win at chess or to win at Go, you know, the game of Go, you don't need to tell the program, you know, everything which is happening now is for you to win.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

If you design a computer program to do a task, You don't need the computer program to know why it's doing the task. So if you design a computer program to win at chess or to win at Go, you know, the game of Go, you don't need to tell the program, you know, everything which is happening now is for you to win.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

If you design a computer program to do a task, You don't need the computer program to know why it's doing the task. So if you design a computer program to win at chess or to win at Go, you know, the game of Go, you don't need to tell the program, you know, everything which is happening now is for you to win.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

You just give this program, this system of values, it expires these values to choose the next decision, and it revises values depending on whether the outcome is above or below the expectations. And the program can be completely myopic. It ends up winning at chess. It has learned to win a chess, but it doesn't have a conscience saying, oh, my goal in life is to win a chess.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

You just give this program, this system of values, it expires these values to choose the next decision, and it revises values depending on whether the outcome is above or below the expectations. And the program can be completely myopic. It ends up winning at chess. It has learned to win a chess, but it doesn't have a conscience saying, oh, my goal in life is to win a chess.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

You just give this program, this system of values, it expires these values to choose the next decision, and it revises values depending on whether the outcome is above or below the expectations. And the program can be completely myopic. It ends up winning at chess. It has learned to win a chess, but it doesn't have a conscience saying, oh, my goal in life is to win a chess.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

But now imagine this program become self-aware and start thinking, what am I doing? What is my goal in life? Well, you would have to find this stuff by itself because the programmer didn't need to put in the program the answer, oh, everything which is happening is because you have been designed to win a chess. And this is the same problem we have.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

But now imagine this program become self-aware and start thinking, what am I doing? What is my goal in life? Well, you would have to find this stuff by itself because the programmer didn't need to put in the program the answer, oh, everything which is happening is because you have been designed to win a chess. And this is the same problem we have.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

But now imagine this program become self-aware and start thinking, what am I doing? What is my goal in life? Well, you would have to find this stuff by itself because the programmer didn't need to put in the program the answer, oh, everything which is happening is because you have been designed to win a chess. And this is the same problem we have.

Modern Wisdom
#873 - Lionel Page - The Invisible Psychology Of Happiness & Meaning

We have been designed by evolution to be successful. And we experience all these feelings for us to be successful. But we have not been given the awareness about why we experience these feelings. And so we are grasping these big questions because we don't have the tools to naturally think about why we're doing that. So the thing about the meaning of life, we have these big questions.