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Are you not afraid with all these technologies that are going to track down any statement the politicians are going to make on certain issues, are you not afraid that this is going to be a very strong signal to politicians to repeat their positions, even the very wrong positions, because consistency is going to be more important than common sense?
So the most common wobble is empathy.
The most common wobble is that people just don't believe that we're mostly in it for them, and they believe that we're too self-distracted.
Because while computers can learn to detect and identify fraud based on patterns, they can't learn to do that based on patterns they've never seen before, and organized crime has a lot in common with this audience: brilliant people, relentlessly resourceful, entrepreneurial spirit — (Laughter) — and one huge and important difference: purpose.
Well today, I'm very pleased to report to you that there have been many experiments in task shifting in mental health care across the developing world over the past decade, and I want to share with you the findings of three particular such experiments, all three of which focused on depression, the most common of all mental illnesses.
In a classroom with a reverberation time of 1.2 seconds, which is pretty common, this is what it sounds like.
As a matter of fact, DIY people from all over the world, America, Europe, got together last year, and we hammered out a common code of ethics.
And though we're often told that these are just passing pleasures, in fact, they're really important, because they remind us of the shared humanity we find in our common experience of the physical world.
So instead, you convert them to a common currency scale, put them on that scale, and value them accordingly.
They were prescribed very widely because heart attacks are a very common thing, and it took so long for us to find out that these drugs also caused an increased rate of death that before we detected that safety signal, over 100,000 people died unnecessarily in America from the prescription of anti-arrhythmic drugs.
The synchrony of emotions that we experience when we hear an opera by Wagner, or a symphony by Brahms, or chamber music by Beethoven, compels us to remember our shared, common humanity, the deeply communal connected consciousness, the empathic consciousness that neuropsychiatrist Iain McGilchrist says is hard-wired into our brain's right hemisphere.
And you might remember, some of you, how the cars were back then, and it was a common problem of overheating.
In this manner, the World Bank has now GeoMapped 30,000 project activities in 143 countries, and donors are using a common platform to map all their projects.
There's much we have in common, but there's a whole lot that we do not have in common.
So the most common question I get asked, and I'm going to answer it now so I don't have to do it over drinks tonight, is how did this come about?
In North America, we call this Astroturfing, and Astroturfing is very common now.
It's common sense, but one important finding is that we lie for a reason.
There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common, only one: None were started by one person.
But all of these attempts have one thing in common.
That was common practice in the industry, and those who held patents on airplanes were defending them fiercely and suing competitors left and right.
What mattered to her was not the ocean that divided her past and new world; it was about finding common ground.
This has led to a common understanding of our situation, namely that modernity has brought us terrible violence, and perhaps that native peoples lived in a state of harmony that we have departed from, to our peril.
Now, the original title of this session was, "Everything You Know Is Wrong," and I'm going to present evidence that this particular part of our common understanding is wrong, that, in fact, our ancestors were far more violent than we are, that violence has been in decline for long stretches of time, and that today we are probably living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.
In earlier times, when suffering and early death were common in one's own life, one has fewer compunctions about inflicting them on others.
I think when you read these horrific tortures that were common in the Middle Ages, you think, how could they possibly have done it, how could they have not have empathized with the person that they're disemboweling?
And humans, by the way, are the only creatures capable of thinking about the future in this way, of projecting ourselves forward in time, and this mental time travel is just one more thing that fears have in common with storytelling.
We will never again have a political class that was forged by the experience of fighting together in World War II against a common enemy.
Nothing pulls people together like a common threat or a common attack, especially an attack from a foreign enemy, unless of course that threat hits on our polarized psychology, in which case, as I said before, it can actually pull us apart.
We're not all in the same boat, and that means nobody's willing to sacrifice for the common good.
In the Asteroids Club, we don't start by looking for common ground.
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