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If you were to summarize all of behavioral science over the last 100 years, it's basically

that we make a tiny fraction of our decisions for ourselves.

The vast majority of the time we're making decisions on autopilot.

These companies are like, oh, we can prey on people's instincts.

Are we going to use it to empower the best parts of being human, that tiny sliver of us,

the cool part of being human, or are we going to try and make money off of the instinctive

stuff, the tribalism and all of the instinctive stuff that we've spent literally 200,000 years

trying to get away from?

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Jacob Ward, a journalist technology correspondent, CNN contributor, and author of The Loop,

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