1342: Jacob Ward | How AI Turns Convenience Into Control
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Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. If you were to summarize all of behavioral science over the last hundred 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? Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's most fascinating people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you.
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