053 - Adaptive Learning - Ulrik Christensen

You Are Not So Smart

Science, Psychology, Brain, Business, Mental Health, Culture, Neuroscience, Mind, Health

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Can new computer programs rid us of the cognitive…

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0:00.0	Me. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
0:27.0	Episode 53. Oh, oh, oh, oh. And do me. We are almost at our first major milestone. We've almost reached our first major milestone over at
1:00.3	Patreon and you could help us go over the top and I know we can go over the top it would
1:08.1	only take about 1% of the people listening and if we do that means I'll be able to make more shows like the one about changing minds that had me traveling all over the place and interviewing experts and pastors and same sex marriage activists to tell the story of Gordon Allport's contact hypothesis.
1:23.2	I want to do more shows like that so much and if we reach the next two milestones after
1:28.2	that one we can hire a producer and a reporter which would just be so incredible because my dream for the show is to one day be able to produce a season of episodes, where we deeply explore a series of topics by going out into the world and collecting lots and lots of stories and weaving it all together, editing it together and making these great shows.
1:46.0	And we can totally do that. We can totally do that with your support.
1:50.0	To everyone that's helped so far, thank you so much. The patrons right now, you get the episodes
1:55.2	ad free, you get episodes with extra content, you get the uncut interviews, like you're going to hear the uncut interviews going up actually today after this goes up
2:06.3	you're going to hear the uncut interviews from the last episode both psychologists so to learn more about all of this and to pitch in and put us over the top,
2:15.0	just head to Patreon.com slash you are not so smart.
2:22.0	Okay, so this episode... you are not so smart.
2:30.6	Okay, so this episode is going to be an extension of episode 52 and let me explain why I've received so many emails about episode 52 which was about learned helplessness and these
2:35.8	emails have been very personal I've read all of them I've responded to most of
2:40.3	them and I've I've really been moved by these emails. I've been moved by your
2:47.2	stories. The episode was about this weird byproduct of the normal and
2:51.6	natural learning process.
2:53.2	It's this thing, you know, when we learn, any animal that can learn,
2:56.9	an animal with a brain that can form memories and has the ability to have its behavior shaped
3:01.7	by reinforcement and conditioning,
3:03.8	basically that animal will be able to learn
3:08.9	that it can't be effective.
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