The Hidden Danger of Accepting Social Norms - George Mack

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12:02 · physics that it's built on top of, it's not just here is good writing. It has to understand what each word inside of that writing means. And the way that it understands what the word inside of the writing is is based on the bigger corpus that it has outside of it. So, it's a little bit like saying, I've got Usain Bolt, but he's running into a 35-mph headwind. Like, regardless of how great the talent is that you're trying to push forward, I think that you're always going to be working against this. Now, it's got to be a relatively complex but simple I'm sorry. Like, uh arduous but simple solution to be like, just weight it toward great pieces of work.

46:59 · What is the adaptive explanation? From an evolutionary or adaptive perspective, survivor guilt can be understood as a byproduct of mechanism to help humans maintain social bonds, cooperation, and group cohesion. Okay, so my hypothesis is looking good so far. Basic idea is that in ancestral environments, humans survive and reproduce largely through belonging to a group. When one person benefited while others suffered, there are often social consequences. So the inverse of that, okay. Maintaining group cohesion. If you survived a dangerous event while close allies did not, feeling distress rather than indifference signals Oh, that's cool.

1:05:01 · So, a negative cash flow conversion cycle is when you get the um you almost have a delayed for the manufacturers and then you can sell right away, which is a lot of what e-commerce companies do. So, I was once at a bar in Manchester talking to my friend about negative cash flow conversion cycles, and we saw these like repelling any woman within a 5-m radius. No, no, no, no. We saw We saw this group of girls like look over and like say hello. And I had a girlfriend at the time, so I wasn't wasn't going to do anything, but I just started laughing at the thought of if only they could hear, they would be repulsed.

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