Loneliness
topic on 5 shows · 14 statements across 7 episodes
American Optimist 
the Knowledge Project 
BigDeal 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath
14 statements about Loneliness, every show
Kamath: AI's major future use case will be solving loneliness and intimacy
“I think the, a big use case in the world tomorrow will be to solve for loneliness, you know, for intimacy.”
Galloway: Loneliness and political extremism threaten society more than climate change
“I think the biggest threats to our society aren't climate change or even income inequality. I think it's one extremism from the far left and the far right, and two, I think it's loneliness.”
Galloway: Extremism and loneliness are bigger societal threats than climate change
“I think the biggest threats to our society aren't climate change or even income inequality. I think it's one extremism from the far left and the far right, and two, I think it's loneliness.”
Lieberman: Businesses targeting loneliness are much harder than tangible outcome businesses
“Like you see all these studies around loneliness in society, and I do believe it, but I also think it's way harder to build a great business off of that because it's always less tangible. It feels more ephemeral. You want to join a dieting program, you very cl…”
Isenberg: Hyper-personalized AI content will erode culture and increase loneliness
“Well, I think what it means is culture suffers. Culture suffers, number one, and then loneliness increases, number two.”
Brooks: Social media cannot solve loneliness through engineering
“The problem with social media today is social media is a complicated solution to a complex problem of loneliness. It's a basically, it's an app based complicated engineering solution to the problem of love. That's why it's utterly inadequate and not up to the …”
Hertz: Three in five young adults feel lonely often or always
“Three in five, 18 to 34 year olds, feel lonely often or always.”
Hertz: Loneliness extends beyond personal ties to workplace and civic disconnection
“There's probably nothing more lonely than being in a bad relationship or a bad marriage. Being lonely Has a sense of powerlessness attached to it. It's a sense you lack agency. It's about wanting to feel connected. Typically we think of loneliness as being wan…”
Hertz: A 30-second interaction with a cafe server significantly reduces loneliness
“There's research that shows that even a 32nd exchange in a cafe with the server can make a huge difference to how connected you feel to others and how lonely you feel or otherwise.”
Hertz: Lonely people are 30% more likely to die prematurely
“That's why loneliness, it turns out, is if you're lonely, 30% more likely to die prematurely than if you're not”
Hertz: Living alone makes people 10% more likely to feel lonely
“People who live on their own, on average, are 10% likelier to feel lonely than people who don't.”
Hertz: Loneliness is rising because participation in civic institutions has dropped
“Part of the reason, of course, we're lonelier today than we were in the past is just that we do less with each other, less than we did before, so we do go to church less. We are less likely to be members of a trade union. We go less to parent-teacher associati…”
Hertz: Loneliness Directly Drives the Rise of Political Populism
“Loneliness and populism that my research has kind of made really clear. Populism, whether on the right or on the left, in increasing numbers, people are seeking, feeling lonely, feeling marginalized, feeling disconnected from each other, but also from the gove…”