113: AI, Attention & Extroverted America

$5-$10 gas - oil companies are not gouging - this is not the final push to EVs - create a crisis and drive people to EVs happening later everything requires another level of bureaucracy why are we so horrible to each other online habitation vs new information - sarcasm is easy meanness reason for stubbornness - think before you say it - big-city environment vs small town we've lost the fear of being punched in the face people are purposely negative to attract attention they don't know how to create / authenticity doesn't exist radical transparency - toxicity attention over all: we created these monsters intermediated communications excel = no-code programming attention deficit - Susan Cain and dale Carnegie America was founded by introverts, but we are all now extroverts learn to boast - you need to promote yourself attention = success / self-improvement introverts must be extroverts now / meanness is contextual you have to believe that you can control your thoughts and emotions communitarian vs individualistic we've become a land of attention whores who build nothing - just generate more and more layers of shock Sistine Chapel - the gap between God and Adam mind to mind communications - creativity disappears with telepathy AI trained on human communications - a predictive model sentient AI - "in the beginning, there was the word" homo nexus vs home sapiens - youtube videos don't always start where you are at.