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that would benefit from a rational assessment of the facts. So suppose you go to your doctor and the doctor says, "I just got your lab work back, your cholesterol's a little high."

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

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that would benefit from a rational assessment of the facts. So suppose you go to your doctor and the doctor says, "I just got your lab work back, your cholesterol's a little high."

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

having high cholesterol isn't the best thing, and so the doctor says, "You know, I'd like to give you a drug that will help you lower your cholesterol, a statin."

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

but this relationship doesn't count. I'm just killing time." Or they say, "Everybody says as long as I get started on a career by the time I'm 30, I'll be fine."

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

The great biologist E.O. Wilson says that humans aren't just social,

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

And it's shaped by whatever everyone else says is prestigious. Which means that puberty is the worst

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

and a lot of love into my life. Richard Powers, in his book "Bewilderment," says, maybe the purpose of life

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

Chick-fil-A restaurant and get us lunch." So she says, "Okay." And in the video, you see the mother

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

And he comes into the car. And he says, "That was so fun." And then the mom says, "Were you nervous?"

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

And he says, "That was so fun." And then the mom says, "Were you nervous?" And he says, "Yeah.

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

And then the mom says, "Were you nervous?" And he says, "Yeah. My legs are still

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

Noland Arbaugh, the first person to receive a Neuralink brain implant, says that using it feels like using the force. The machine doesn’t feel like a machine --

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

About 18 hours before the argument, Ben calls and says, “How are you feeling?” And I say, "Honestly, I'm terrified.

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

I've got to deliver an argument for history." Ben says, “You know, change the vowel, use an ‘e’ instead of an ‘o.’” He says, "What do you get to do?"

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

Ben says, “You know, change the vowel, use an ‘e’ instead of an ‘o.’” He says, "What do you get to do?" And instantly it pours out of me:

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

people stop thinking. "The computer says so." Four words, human judgment ends,

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

but the delivery, the pause, the tone, the look that says, "I hear you. And here is my answer."

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

So if we think that Claude is conscious, but AlphaFold isn't, that says more about us than it says about AI. (Applause)

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

It makes us more psychologically vulnerable. We might be more likely to do what an AI says if we believe that it really feels for us,

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

For example, when a tech executive says that in the future we will use AI for everything and everywhere,

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

And how we walk across this tightrope handling this paradox of people says a lot about our ability to make and keep friends. Because if we find ourselves stuck in the place

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

and my ex, he pushes me back into the hallway to talk to my neighbors and says to me, you know, "You're writing this book on friends.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

So Rebecca G. Adams, she's a sociologist, and she says, you know, for friendship to be fostered organically, you need to have this repeated unplanned interaction

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

lies that movement toward the other. Because sometimes, as Proust says, mystery is not about traveling to new places,

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wrote a book called "The Lost Art of Connecting." In it, she says, we are much more interconnected than we realize, and she equates our communities

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to constellations. And she says all it takes is one link to another star to unlock so many possibilities you may never have realized.

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

all the while knowing that there's somebody when they come back. But if on this side there is somebody who says, "I'm worried. I'm anxious. I'm depressed.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

And this brings us back to feeling awkward. Feeling awkward is a nudge from our modern brain that says, “Careful, there’s risk ahead,

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Sometimes, that nudge feels like a giant shove. "Who says you're ready for a TEDx?" And to be clear, many of us live in a system

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

Instead of running from the awkwardness, which research actually says backfires and makes things even more awkward long term --

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

And as we were having the discussion, about 10 minutes in, she chimes in and says, "Wait, I'm going to hop off for a moment. I need to go change my top. I'll be back."

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

So I ask, like, "Why'd you change clothes?" She says, "Oh, I'm getting my home appraised today. So I'm actually going to pretend to be the cleaning lady,

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

I'm nodding my head because I know what's going on. The colleague on the call says, "Wait, what do you mean? I don't understand."

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

Can changing how you think about stress make you healthier? And here the science says yes. When you change your mind about stress,

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They say the grade levels you teach are most reflective of your personality. So I'm not quite sure what it says about me that I later went on to found a middle school for boys.

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Now, social isolation is the public health risk of our time. Now, a third of the population says they have two or fewer people to lean on.

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

This face-to-face contact provides stunning benefits, yet now almost a quarter of the population says they have no one to talk to. We can do something about this.

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

You jump right in along with your friends. The first friend says, I'm going to rescue those who are about to drown,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

those at most risk of falling over the waterfall. The second friends says, I'm going to build a raft. I'm going to make sure that fewer people

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

There are children here to save." And she says back, "I'm going to find out

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

Now, a root cause analysis, in healthcare, usually says, well, let's look at your genes, let's look at how you're behaving.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

for two weeks straight. She says that now that her teeth are clean, she's a little less stressed about tomorrow's problems.

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

To do it while breaking all of the rules. And replace that inner voice that says, “I’m failing,”

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

“I’m failing,” with one that says, "I'm having a hard time right now. And people who are having a hard time deserve compassion."

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

When the person who actually speaks Chinese gets a piece of paper that says something in Chinese in it, they can read it, no problem. But when our imposter gets it again,

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

If anything, our slang is built on a shared mockery of incel ideas. When a kid says something like "I'm so burrito-pilled," they’re not saying that because they’re black-pilled

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

And I'm afraid this means that people will just be more likely to accuse others of lying just because an AI says so. And I'm not the only one with this view

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

(Laughter) Which says, for something to be funny, it has to have just the right amount of wrong.

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

AI marching quadruple time. Vincent gets back to me and says, while human creativity might still be out of reach,

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

the world chess champion. And here's the cartoon I did then, and it says, "No, I don't want to play chess.

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

Now when Bob talks to me of his country, he says, “Country is sick, country is crying.”

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

But at the end, they had the symptoms and people died. WHO says that mercury is one of the top ten chemicals that are a major concern for public health.

The Hidden Cost of Buying Gold | Claudia Vega | TED · TED

what typically happens is a truly brilliant human being looks at one area and says, "I see a pattern

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

These tools will radically increase that productivity. There's a study that says that we will, under this set of assumptions around agentic AI and discovery

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

speed them up researcher Jeffrey Hall says it takes around 200 hours for a best friendship

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for better face-to-face conversations linguist Deborah Tannen says connection comes from listening

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a famous proverb sums this up nicely it says if you want to go fast go alone

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and that I had never even considered. He says a bad lid can ruin your coffee. That it can block the aroma,

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and he looked like somebody from a movie. And he says to me, "Don't stand there. You might disappear."

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she asks me why. She says, "Do we know them?" I say, "No, they're our neighbor."

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the same argument back and forth at each other. One side says, “You’re bringing politics and indoctrination into the classroom.” And then the other side says,

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

One side says, “You’re bringing politics and indoctrination into the classroom.” And then the other side says, “You’re bringing politics and indoctrination into the classroom.”

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

We're living in a culture that sidelines the creative act. That says it's something for children or something for the retired.

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

a lot of you will have read them, and she’s seriously impacted my life. And Sally says, "I've given my life to writing novels.

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

When we create, we have agency in a world that says that we're too small to enact change. When I write my novels,

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

This is a DM I got the other day. It says, "What is the point of making art in this world when AI is just going to do it better and cheaper anyway?

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

because it's got words on it, OK? Can anyone see what it says? What does it say?

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

Or shouldn’t there be a model that somehow says that any named individual in a prompt whose work is then used, they should get something for that?

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

and say that, you know, maybe it’s open models are widely distributed and someone says, "OK, AGI,

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

you are not a rude, angry person who comes out and says aggressive things to other people. SA: Sometimes I do that.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

And by far the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me, like everything everybody says is true. A thing my cofounder Ilya said once is, I don’t know.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

that we have to figure out how to draw the line for, but, you know, I think there will be cases where a company says, OK, we've heard the feedback from society.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

Between diaper duty and deadlines, where is that signal that says, “I like you?” “I’m into this version of you, now.”

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out of Paris climate Accord and Trump says he's not going to subsidize electric vehicles anymore and he wants

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into good dirt. Jasmine says companies pay for waste management anyway, they

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Yeah. Dana says that food waste has five times the greenhouse gas footprint of

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and because I respect it so much that I know there's something inside that says he is right no matter what. But I think one of the wisest things we can do

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the scene where Alec Baldwin's character goes in to give the motivational speech, and he says, "It's going to be a competition. First prize, Cadillac Eldorado.

How to Live a Meaningful Life | Brian S. Lowery | TED · TED

and all the initial comments are so positive. And then one person says something and it takes a turn. You know, and a lot of people kind of follow the crowd,

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

But I recognize that it is hard in a culture that says like there are there are schools that won't