Visionary or Delusional? What Submersibles, Fake Blood Tests, and Self-help Share

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of a wishful thinking mindset in modern culture, particularly in relation to self-help and technology.

Jean and Glenn revisit some recent examples of supposedly visionary individuals whose grand plans led to disaster. It’s a sort of wishful thinking, fake-it-till-you-make-it, “manifest it” mindset that is not only a hallmark of modern self-help, but also seems to be pervasive in modern culture. What are the implications of this type of thinking, especially as we train LLMs and AIs from the content output of this culture? Also… Join us on May 30th for the SEEK Safely Summit! We’ll be talking ab...

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Hosts: Jean Brown, Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle

Topics covered

• visionary thinking
• self-help culture
• disaster examples
• AI training
• wishful thinking

Keywords

• visionary
• self-help
• disaster
• AI
• wishful thinking
• submersibles
• fake blood tests

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