Human Behavior
topic on 9 shows · 10 statements across 10 episodes
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10 statements about Human Behavior, every show
Park: LLMs can simulate realistic human behavior across domains
“One of the early observations that we made was that these models are trained on so much of human behavior data, sentiment data that were expressed on the web. So if you poke at them sort of at the right angle, you could actually extract a lot of realistic huma…”
Feldman: AI world models will provide behavioral insights by watching humans
“I think that's some of the things the world models are gonna bring us as they begin to watch human behavior.”
Eyal: All time, money, and weight management is fundamentally pain management
“If all human behavior is spurred by a desire to escape discomfort, that means, therefore, That time management is pain management. Money management is pain management. Weight management is pain management. It's all about managing discomfort.”
Dr. Becky: Humans share identical core emotional needs across all life stages
“All humans need the same things. Whether we're one or five or 45 or 85, we tend to need the same things. When the needs are not being met, we all tend to express ourselves in kind of ineffective, less than ideal ways.”
Song: AI agent and human behavior will be indistinguishable in 2-3 years
“Genuinely believe that like within the next two, three years, you won't be able to differentiate human behavior from agentic behavior.”
Sutherland: Businesses mistakenly promote leaders using artificial linear test models
“If you look at real life, I business decisions, which anything that involves human behavior, it's simply, you know, all those conditions that we are expected to look for in something when we call it scientific, none of those conditions are met, you know, singl…”
Eastman: People update behavioral assumptions only when proven completely wrong
“When it comes to human behavior, we get lazy, and we build these things, and we don't change, and I feel like the only time we're changed is if we're shown we're really wrong”
Puri: Self-improvement products fail because consumers refuse high-friction work
“I think a lot of these solutions look really good in PowerPoint, but when they go into the real world, people will Simply not do the work to help themselves.”
Hight: Knowing about cognitive biases does not change human behavior
“Just knowing about a bias doesn't change human behavior.”
Altshuler: Deep learning is inadequate for predicting dynamic human behavior
“Deep learning requires a lot of data, relatively speaking, and therefore, by definition, cannot detect recent changes in the data, emerging patterns, ah, and therefore, it's, ah, really, really, ah, inadequate to predict human behavior that is, ah, actually do…”