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Here We Are

Artificial Intimacy w/Rob Brooks

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Today I'm speaking with returning guest, Rob Brooks! Rob is a Scientia Professor of Evolution at the University of New South Wales. He studies human mating preferences how cutting edge technologies are manipulating our evolved human nature and impacting culture. We also talk about political polarization, status and inequality, the conflict between societal and biological influences, creativity, and his new book "Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers". Pre-order Rob's new book: Artificial Intimacy | Columbia University Press Follow Rob on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And I'm just wondering if we've been domesticating each other for a hundred thousand plus years?

0:06.0

Are we going to be the ones who domesticate the machine learning algorithms?

0:12.0

Or are they by starting to build the bridge back to us and starting to push our buttons?

0:19.0

Are they going to domesticate us?

0:21.0

Are we yes? Where are we here? Why are we here not entirely clear?

0:28.0

We are misfits thrust into existence by random chance with no hints at all

0:34.0

As to how we're supposed to make sense of it all

0:37.0

It's immensely bizarre

0:39.0

Here we are

0:42.0

Hello everybody and welcome to the here we are podcast. This is special episode. I call a lot of special

0:48.0

But like I've said before anytime I have a return guest that means you guys

0:56.0

Can rest easy and be confident in knowing that they're going to be good

1:03.0

Why would I if there was a guest that I didn't think was good it would be weird to have them back on the show

1:10.0

For no reason whatsoever

1:12.0

So you already know that this is going to be a really good episode

1:15.0

This is actually so first off if you know me some

1:20.0

Some of my favorite subjects are going to be covered a lot of evolution

1:24.0

A lot of evolutionary psychology a lot of mating behavior stuff

1:28.0

So you already know this is the stuff that I love talking about

1:31.0

And over the last year with the pandemic and everything else

1:35.0

I feel like over the last couple of years we haven't touched on the subject

1:39.0

As much as I had very early on in the podcast

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