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🗓️ 9 June 2025
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Is it possible to become happier? How much of your happiness has to do with genetics, social connection, comparison to other people, your balance of optimism vs pessimism, and whether it would be useful to keep a journal of your life? Join Eagleman this week with Bruce Hood, experimental psychologist and author of “The Science of Happiness”.
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0:00.0 | Is it possible to become happier? What does the science say about this? How much of your |
0:11.0 | happiness is your genetics? And what does any of this have to do with social connection or |
0:17.0 | comparison to other people or your balance of optimism versus pessimism, and why it would be |
0:24.0 | useful to keep a journal of your life. |
0:30.4 | Welcome to Intercosmos with me, David Eagleman. I'm a neuroscientist and author at Stanford, |
0:35.7 | and in these episodes, we sail deeply into our three-pound universe |
0:39.8 | to uncover some of the most surprising aspects of our lives. |
0:53.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
0:57.3 | Are there any pictures of you online? |
0:59.5 | Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it. |
1:03.5 | Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts. |
1:09.1 | I'm Dexter Thomas, host a Kill Switch, a podcast about how living in the future is affecting us right now. |
1:14.9 | Police, they are trusting the software with this magical ability to lead them to the right suspect. |
1:20.5 | In this episode, we dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition, and sometimes getting it wrong and putting innocent people behind bars. |
1:28.5 | So if your accuser is this algorithm, but you're not even being told that it was used, let alone given any of the details about how it works. |
1:37.1 | Listen to KillSwitch on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. |
1:43.9 | Open AI is a financial abomination, a thing that should not be, an aberration, a symbol |
1:48.7 | of rot at the heart of Silicon Valley. |
1:50.9 | And I'm going to tell you why on my show, Bert Rothline, the rudest show in the tech industry, |
1:55.1 | where we're breaking down why Open AI, along with other AI companies, are dead set on lying |
1:59.2 | to your boss that they can take your job. |
2:01.6 | I'm also going to be talking with the greatest minds in the industry about all the other ways |
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