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What if everything in your life was randomized: from the food you ate to the things you did and the places you traveled? Computer scientist Max Hawkins created algorithms to make decisions like these for him — and got hooked on the experience for two years. He shares how relinquishing choice sent him across the world and opened him up to the beautiful complexity and richness of life. It makes you wonder: What lies just outside your comfort zone?
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My wife is my algorithm
I want the algorithm too.
@anshuman patel
Until the big D comes around! Then you’ll be glad for staying single
@Schnell I’ve survived 2 months of lockdown in complete isolation from humanity. I am sure I can take that too.
are you happy ?
hahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Did he end up in TED randomly?
might be
Lmaooo
“deixa a vida me levar, vida leva eu”
Algorithms need to not only show you more of the same but some of the opposite and some that are on a parallel path. They need to show you the map of possibilities.
If algorithms have to show you possibilities then you can get off the internet because algorithms can never show you possibilities
@Manu John Not true. Many algorithms in my life have shown me many possibilities. The original YT algorithm was great for finding different things because anything with even a loose association was suggested. Even if it wasn’t associated with what the previous video was at all.
It’s really easy to get caught in a place where you can be controlled “
If ever there was a closing line deserving of a mic drop, that was it.
You are always controlled……. Stumphead
Or fiend and guide some one
The ideas are Interesting and Communicated Well.
” Living simple life is simple but not easy “
I enjoyed that, Good talk. I think about how freedom and limited choice is a paradox too sometimes. Bravo.
Incorporates all three aspects of the TED letters; Technology, Entertainment, and Design.
Really good Talk.
What did you watch? not this video
Huge fan of both randomness and algorithms. I think BOTH are the stuff of life. I am a retired software engineer and love the challenges of genetic algorithms (and their inherent randomness), consciousness, or the concepts of free will. However, as a human being, I suspect we all have embedded instructions that can shape our choices and behaviors if we pay attention (such as doing the least harm possible). It is not much different than the instructions a spider follows building a web or a beaver building a dam. Even though we may not be able to verbalize it, the instinct still exists. Perhaps someday we can shape or create an algorithm to simulate such … instructions. Rather than blindly following random choices (that as you point out may not truly be random) the algorithm might provide us with a BETTER choice rather than a random choice (that is built on REAL, collective, big data that comes from random choices). Even though a computer might select a random choice, it could use accurate data (as can our own personal experience) to select the BEST choice from the random choices which seems similar to the app you created.
Exactly, we need an AI sidekick that guides us through life and creates the best possible version of ourselves.
There is an episode from the “Your Undivided Attention” podcast with Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin and Yuval Noah Harari. They talk about an AI sidekick that’s similar to your idea.
He looks like Ryan Reynolds but brainy
Oh that’s why I feel like I saw him somewhere
get Reynolds to play him in a dramatization of his voyage of randomness
@Josh Kariakin Then it’ll be full circle and Reynolds will look like him XD
Brain Reynolds*
Reynolds is brainy yaaa tissue
I loved how he switched up the ending like that, not only for its effect, but also because of how it resembles his passion for randomness.
I literally have no idea how I ended up on this video… seems appropriate…
you just randomly clicked it..
youtube recommendations algorithm brought you here. You are welcome
The talk is nice and all, but all I want to do after a year of the pandemic is somehow just sit amid an auditorium full of people and watch a talk. Any talk.
“if you just do the default,
follow your preferences,
go in the direction that everything else is going,
it is easy to get caught in a place where you can be control”
This was a really good ted talk
This man had a digital dominatrix
“giving up control made me feel free”
I wonder how his relationships changed? Life isn’t only events.
what he said is actually so brave. he is telling us to not let the social media feed us with “preferred” content and let it dictate our life. wow.
Where can I download one of his apps to randomize my life too? Im traveling around the world right now.
If you do find it please let me know here. Appreciate it
How? So many countries say they won’t let Americans (includes me). I have a mediocre income and can’t afford big bribes.
just commenting to be notified if someone answers here.
He posted it on his site, appearing anyone can sign up as a beta tester.
His website says the app is coming soon
So, when exactly is Ted gonna show up, haven’t seen him in a single video yet.