Behavior
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What motivated me to film their
behavior
was something that I asked my scientific advisers: "What motivates the pollinators?"
The ant's brain has been hijacked by a parasite that infects the brain, inducing suicidal
behavior.
It might change my
behavior.
Which was, how to measure the movement of plankton in 3D fast enough so he could mathematically model their sensing and
behavior.
And here in the United Kingdom there's also concern over a law called the Digital Economy Act that's placing more onus on private intermediaries to police citizen
behavior.
It's the result of very sustained and prolonged political activism that you get the right regulations, and that you get the right corporate
behavior.
But it's going to require innovation that's not only going to need to focus on politics, on geopolitics, but it's also going to need to deal with questions of business management, investor behavior, consumer choice and even software design and engineering.
But I believe now that we're moving into a new age, and that age The New York Times dubbed recently as "the age of behavior."
How I define the age of
behavior
is a period of transnational allegiances, where identity is defined more so by ideas and narratives.
But actually it's my belief that the people who've been truly capitalizing on this age of behavior, up until now, up until recent times, up until the last six months, the people who have been capitalizing most on the age of
behavior
and the transnational allegiances, using digital activism and other sorts of borderless technologies, those who've been benefiting from this have been extremists.
And my story, my personal story, is truly evidence for the age of
behavior
that I'm attempting to elaborate upon here.
The age of behavior: where ideas and narratives were increasingly defining
behavior
and identity and allegiances.
The Old mentality with a capital O, as represented by the nation-state, not yet fully into the age of behavior, not recognizing the power of transnational social movements, got left behind.
I've become very familiar with its dysfunctional
behavior.
And you see this
behavior
on Amazon as surely as you see it on Wall Street.
And when you see this kind of behavior, what you see is the evidence of algorithms in conflict, algorithms locked in loops with each other, without any human oversight, without any adult supervision to say, "Actually, 1.7 million is plenty."
Economies of scale gave rise to this sigmoidal
behavior.
We're going to have to change this
behavior
whether we like it or not.
The tantrum will become what childhood psychologists call a functional behavior, since the child has learned that he can get parental attention out of it.
Parents can incentivize or disincentivize
behavior
simply by giving or withdrawing attention to their children.
In fact, the
behavior
of entire communities and countries can be influenced, depending on where the international community chooses to focus its attention.
I believe that at the core of ending the conflict in the Middle East and bringing peace is for us to transform nonviolence into a functional
behavior
by giving a lot more attention to the nonviolent leaders on the ground today.
The examples of Wallajeh and the Solidariot movement show that even a small-budget independent film can play a role in transforming nonviolence into a functional
behavior.
In fact, it also shows something interesting, that although our capabilities and technology have been expanding geometrically, unfortunately, our ability to model their long-term behavior, which has also been increasing, has been increasing only arithmetically.
And so the lesson is this: it doesn't really matter what you're selling; you just have to think about who is your customer, and what are the messages that are going to get them to change their
behavior.
That is a pretty solid contribution for a
behavior
equated with doing nothing.
It's a description of the changes in the
behavior
of one enzyme when you drip a chemical extracted from some red grape skin onto some cancer cells in a dish on a bench in a laboratory somewhere.
The claim: fish oil pills improve school performance and
behavior
in mainstream children.
But the interesting thing about these computer virus infections was that, if you look at the rate at which the infection worked, they show this spiky
behavior
that you're used to from a flu virus.
(Audience murmurs) But for good behavior, they threw in an occupational therapist who taught me that very essential skill of cross-stitching.
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