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5136
yeah
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5137
who really wants to eat chocolate covered broccoli none of you
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5140
i'd like to put this kind of friday night bar discussion aside and get you to actually step into the lab
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5141
we can step into the lab and measure how good your vision is
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5143
so we're actually leveraging that work to develop games for patients with low vision and to have an impact on retraining their brain to see better
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5144
there can be many mechanisms for this effect one possibility is that your friends say to you something like you know they adopt a behavior that spreads to you like they say let's go have muffins and beer which is a terrible combination
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5146
what was interesting to us is that the european headline writers had a different take they said are your friends gaining weight perhaps you are to blame
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5147
so for example i was giving this talk recently in new york city and i said you know when you're on the subway and the other person across the subway car smiles at you and you just instinctively smile back and they looked at me and said we don't do that in new york city
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5148
and whether you become happy or not depends in part on whether you occupy a happy patch
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5151
and second it was not restricted to pairs of people
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5152
so social networks are these intricate things of beauty and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous in fact that one has to ask what purpose they serve
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5153
and along with my collaborator james fowler we began to wonder whether obesity really was epidemic and could it spread from person to person like the four people i discussed earlier
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5154
but the visual complexity is still very high
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5156
they then paved them
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5157
someone installed a barrier people started walking across and round the bottom as you see and they paved it
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5158
but then there's this mud trap that cuts across the middle
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5159
the first is in the capital city of brazil brasilia
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5160
keep your hands up if you know who this is
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5161
all they do is make me feel bad
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5162
i don't know if you've ever looked at the credits of a pixar movie but the babies born during a production are listed there
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5163
so along with three co conspirators i spent nearly a decade observing up close and personal exceptional leaders of innovation
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5165
when many of us think about innovation though we think about an einstein having an moment
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5166
here in biosphere well it takes me about two minutes because i pick up the phone and i call and say hey can you deliver the pizza so biosphere was essentially a three acre entirely sealed miniature world that i lived in for two years and minutes
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5167
more on that later
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5168
and we ate an awful lot of the sweet potatoes
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5171
and over the ensuing few years there were great sagas about designing biosphere
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5172
northeast airlines was the only company i heard of that was selling for less than five dollars a share
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5176
yup we really do this
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5180
and i thought this game is easy
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5183
people thought it was kind of a crazy point of view
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5186
you know what else makes my role particularly challenging people do weird things
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5187
it turns out it is also used on when people are role playing as dogs
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5188
there's a sort of inherent cognitive dissonance in doing that like when you're writing your wedding vows at the same time as your prenuptial agreement
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5189
given that i spend my days and nights imagining the worst that could happen it wouldn't be surprising if my was gloomy
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5192
we should just automatically suspend accounts engaging in this kind of behavior
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5193
this time it's sending the same message and link
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5194
i don't know where julian morrow got that from
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5195
i look for it all the time
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5196
as one of them said to me ron we ain't going anywhere at the moment
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5197
see it up there and you see it has no what do you call it no screen
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5200
it's called jaws job access with speech and it sounds like this
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5203
little did i know that i would be part of a technological revolution that would make that dream come true
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5204
it's an interaction between volunteers passionate inventors and technology and it's a story that many other blind people could tell
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5206
it meant for the first time i could read back what i had typed into it
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5207
one is another american inventor ted
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5209
many we can't read using jaws and the other technologies
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5220
we didn't find a dinosaur
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5221
maybe we can try this at home someday i don't know
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5225
this is from marlboro country
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5226
they said yes but it's summertime
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5227
as a frenchman i must say that there are a lot of french intellectuals that think happiness is not at all interesting
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5228
and someone wrote an article saying don't impose on us the dirty work of happiness
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5229
we like our suffering because it's so good when it ceases for a while
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5230
it's about two meters by three and you are all welcome any time
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5232
beautiful chocolate cake first serving is delicious second one not so much then we feel disgust
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5233
they are real olympic champions of mind training
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5235
and just i leave you with the beauty of those looks that tells more about happiness than i could ever say
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5241
there might be storms but the depth of the ocean is still there unchanged
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5242
we think that if we could gather this and that all the conditions something that we say everything to be happy to have everything to be happy
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5244
so now if the inner conditions are stronger of course the outer conditions do influence and it's wonderful to live longer healthier to have access to information education to be able to travel to have freedom
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5245
we have to know from ourselves there are certain states of mind that are conducive to this flourishing to this well being what the greeks called flourishing
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5246
we don't need any gratitude
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5248
we know we're not always angry always jealous always generous
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5249
so there are natural to emotions that are destructive to our inner well being
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5250
he studies the brain using and he claims that this is the most beautiful brain that he has ever scanned
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5251
this is a quote from brian eno the problem with computers is that there is not enough africa in them
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5252
i read about how the is constantly shuffling data back and forth between the memory the ram and the alu the arithmetic and logic unit
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5257
but after i grew up and went to college and i came home in the early this is what i found
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5260
so this is as joy mountford once said the mouse is probably the narrowest straw you could try to suck all of human expression through
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5262
i'd like to show you thing called snout which is the idea behind this project is to make a robot that appears as if it's continually surprised to see you
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5263
this language is communicating that it is surprised to see you and it's interested in looking at you
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5265
so from both directions there is kind of i think a lack of understanding about what it could mean to be an artist who uses the materials of his own day or her own day which i think artists are obliged to do is to really explore the expressive potential of the new tools that we have
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5266
because this is in some sense the first way that people discover their own potential as actors and discover their own agency
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5267
and their own personalities come out in totally unique ways
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5284
i've never seen my mother cry like that at the end of monopoly
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5286
his favorite photograph my favorite photograph of his which i don't have in here is indian taking picture of white people taking pictures of indians
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5289
this is one my partner and i worked on
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5290
but we think about games as fun and that's completely reasonable but let's just think about this
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5292
i was the head of a college department teaching games so again it was sort of a real job and now i got to talk about making them as opposed to making them
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5294
i invented the placebo camera
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5296
i am mr micheal the son of late mr who was the minister of finance in sierra leone but was killed during the civil war
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5297
one i want to speak as early in the morning as possible
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5299
lotte an amazing shadow puppeteer in the that started doing more elaborate things
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5300
don't you in the front row worry or anything
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5301
now the people in the front row are very nervous
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5302
and i'm sitting in a waiting room some time later for an ultrasound and all six of these doctors actually show up in the room at once and i'm like uh oh this is bad news
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5303
now these people making these proclamations to me were not bad people
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5305
and the title for my cookbook was going to be dining without crumbs the art of eating over the sink
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5306
and even being here i mean the last few days i've known heights of obsessive behavior i never thought about
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5307
now the interesting thing about this is when i take the lines away it's as if you haven't learned anything in the last minute
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5308
and if we have these predictable repeatable mistakes in vision which we're so good at what are the chances we won't make even more mistakes in something we're not as good at for example financial decision making
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5309
it's percent in organ donation
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5316
the fact that you have rome without coffee makes rome with coffee look superior and not just to rome without coffee even superior to paris
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5318
that means our students can read
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5319
i took and i made jerry slightly less attractive
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5321
i said i don't want to write about my research
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5323
here's another one
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5324
the bottom one yellow
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5325
but again it's the same story that if we take the background away the illusion comes back
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5326
it's from a paper by johnson and goldstein
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