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Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Biology at Caltech, where he studies the neuroscience of emotion and social cognition.

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  A feeling outlasts the memory of what caused it: amnesic patients stayed sad long after they had forgotten the sad film they were shown.

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  So, I thought this was a really cool study because it showed very clearly that there is temporal persistence in emotions and sadness probably has one of the longest time constants as we know from personal experience. But it's separate from just declarative memory.

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Co-CEO of Waymo and a founding member of Google's self-driving car project, which he joined in 2009.

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  Betting a robotics company on today's component prices is betting it on a number with a short shelf life.

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  So, betting your company, betting your approach on today's hardware prices is just betting your company on a number that has a fairly short shelf life and is going to expire.

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Behavioural economist at Chicago Booth, professor of behavioural science and economics and director of AGI economics at Google DeepMind.

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  People value a human-made good for the connection to its maker, which is why the premium disappears once five hundred copies exist.

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  So with one, you get the effect that the person produced art print is valued much much higher than the than the AI version. And then what we do is to say there's in a set of other conditions, there's 500 of these being produced. So for the human made one, the price goes down a lot because it's no longer seen as like you're not like making a connection with this one artist versus with AI, there's no difference. AI is already viewed as like a commodity.

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Writes The Convivial Society, on technology and the moral life — what our tools do to attention, memory and how we treat each other.

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  The sadness around AI comes from being invited to outsource exactly the activities that supply satisfaction, accomplishment and purpose.

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  I believe that one dimension of this sadness or demoralization can be attributed to the simple fact that we are increasingly invited to outsource a class of activities that grant us a measure of satisfaction, accomplishment, and purpose.

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Marriage and family therapist working from attachment theory and emotionally focused therapy. Author of Secure Love and the person behind The Secure Relationship.

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  Underneath the anger of anxious attachment is unresolved grief about not having been responded to.

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  Underneath anger is sadness over all your cumulative experiences in life of not being responded to, past and present. The sadness around powerlessness. Unresolved grief.

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Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.

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  A Ribbon For Your Hair

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  There's too much yearning in the book, too much dark humor, and too much of a characteristic attempt to keep finding some thread to follow through all the sadness. This book is mournful but not bleak.

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Co-founder and CEO of Until, a reversible-cryopreservation company, and previously the founder of the Longevity Fund.

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  Transplant patients regularly lose organs that are already on their way to them, purely because of timing.

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  basically transplant patients today surprisingly frequently miss organs that are on route to them because there's a timing problem. Um, so like you know, organs expire um very quickly after they become available from a donor.

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Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.

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  There is no long decline in human family size: once child survival is accounted for, the two-century downward trend disappears.

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  What you can see is that the “long decline” of TFR since the late-19th century is… an illusion! It isn’t real!

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Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.

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  UX does not die when the interface disappears; it becomes the design of policies, protocols and orchestration of what AI does on the user's behalf.

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  So no, UX doesn’t die; it metamorphoses. We’ll still craft humane experiences, but increasingly through policies, protocols, and orchestrations rather than panels and palettes.

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Astrophysicist at Barnard College; wrote Black Hole Blues and How the Universe Got Its Spots, and directs sciences at Pioneer Works.

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  Everything we build — every proof, every Nobel Prize, every idea, even the AI — will eventually be erased, which is why the near term matters.

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  Eventually, I think it’s kind of hard to imagine, but yes, all of these Nobel Prizes, all of these mathematical proofs, all of these conversations, all of these ideas, all the influence we have on each other, even the AI, eventually will expire.

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Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

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  The middle ground in writing disappears: what is left is good writers and people who cannot write, with no ok writers in between.

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  Instead of good writers, ok writers, and people who can't write, there will just be good writers and people who can't write.

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