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EPISODE · Jul 9, 2026 · 29 MIN

Pride and Prejudice, Personality Feedback Loops, and AI-Powered Reading Tools

from Now I Get It, with Dr. Andy

Today I'm talking about something that's been on my mind as I've been writing Love Quotient: the two feedback loops that quietly corrode almost every relationship we have. I explain how our dominant cognitive function becomes our personal "channel" for expressing and receiving love, and why a mismatch with the people we care about can spiral into the exact same withdrawal on both sides, until the relationship falls apart.From there I dive into Pride and Prejudice, using what I know about personality and temperament to offer a fresh, more sympathetic read on Mr. Bennett and the entailment that hangs over the Bennet family. I also share a personal story about my border collies that mirrors his situation surprisingly well. Then I take a hard turn into artificial intelligence, walking through how I used "vibe coding" to build a free tool that helps you read the world's great literature, in the original Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Aramaic, with computer-assisted definitions built right in.In this episode you will learn:(00:00) Why our relationships are being steadily corroded by two feedback loops we rarely notice(02:27) How our dominant cognitive function becomes our personal channel for expressing and receiving love(05:15) What entailment meant for the Bennet family and why it set the entire plot of Pride and Prejudice in motion(08:22) Why Mrs. Bennett was so openly focused on marrying off her daughters to rich men(11:57) How "goodness of fit" and temperament theory give us a more sympathetic read on Mr. Bennett's parenting(15:32) What my border collies taught me about Mr. Bennett's distance from his younger daughters(18:45) Why artificial intelligence is simultaneously overhyped and underhyped right now(18:45) How human and machine intelligence complement each other when it comes to parsing language(22:01) How I used "vibe coding" to build a reading tool from scratch in a single day(24:45) What's inside the Andrew Winkler Reading Room, from the Septuagint to Shakespeare to UlyssesLet’s connect!linktr.ee/drprandyRead, with computer assistance, the best literature the world has ever producedandrew-winkler-reading-room.overskill.appLove Quotient: Stop Dying of Thirst in an Ocean of Love Kickstarterhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amwphd/love-quotient Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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