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Outrage BONUS – How ChatGPT AI Can Persuade Humans on Political Issues – Hui Bai
David Beckemeyer
The AI landscape is changing extremely fast. ChatGPT was first released to the public only a few months ago. We did an episode about it fairly early on. This new AI is being used already across many industries and applications, including writing code, policies, legal briefs, plans, job descriptions, analysis, and many others. Researchers realized…
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Outrage 011 – Put your oxygen mask on first – Alex Korb
David Beckemeyer
achieve, actions, alexcorbphd, anxiety, autopilot, bestsellingauthor, complexworld, control, controllable, distinguish, divisiveness, effort, emotionalcontrol, emotions, focus, goal, lowerthetemperature, mood, neuroscience, nextstep, otherpeoplesreactions, OutrageOverload, politicalpolarization, smalllifechanges, stress, theupwardspiralapproach, thoughts, tribalismThis is part-two of a two-part series on “The Neuroscience of Outrage Porn.” We’re talking with Dr. Alex Korb, a neuroscientist and best-selling author. If you haven’t listened to part-one yet, it’s time to go listen because you don’t want to miss it. In part one, we learned about some of the brain systems involved…
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Outrage 002 – How democracy runs counter to almost all of our evolutionary tendencies – Peter Ditto
David Beckemeyer
In this episode we conclude our interview with Professor Peter H. Ditto, where we continue our discussion of political polarization and “outrage porn” including how we overestimate the extremism of the other side and their hatred of us and various other distortions that get in the way of productive dialogue, as well as things like…
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Outrage 001 – How liberals and conservatives behave more like Sunnis and Shias than they do political parties and why that’s a problem – Peter Ditto
David Beckemeyer
In this episode we speak with Peter H. Ditto, Professor of psychological science at UC Irvine who is an expert on motivated reasoning, and especially motivated moral reasoning. He worked with a team of all-star scientists to look at a major social problem in our society: political polarization. In this episode, we explore this groundbreaking…
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Outrage Overload is a podcast about the outrage industry, my journey to discover what it is, how it affects us, and what we can do about it.