Life-Hacking, or The Examined Life?
Update: 2025-01-27
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Episode 12 - Life-Hacking, or The Examined Life?
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This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J discuss the pros and cons of life-tracking or “self-quantification,” with tools like health watches, and the “life-hacking” that these tools encourage, from dieting and exercise to sleep and meditation. How do we know when we are being distracted and made miserable by all this self-knowledge, and when it is helpful? Could AI life coaches, tracking every vital, help us live happier, longer lives?
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- Self-Absorption in the Digital Era: A Review of "Self-Improvement Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" by Mark Coeckelbergh
- “Know Thyself, Improve Thyself: Personalized LLMs for Self-Knowledge and
Moral Enhancement,” Julian Savulescu - Trump administration directs federal health agencies to pause communications
- Stargate AI Iniatitive, Spurned by Musk, Trumped by Chinese DeepSeek Breakthroughs
- China’s cheap, open AI model DeepSeek thrills scientists
- Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek
- OpenAI Unveils A.I. Agent That Can Use Websites on Its Own
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Hosted by James Hughes and Nir Eisikovits
Produced by Jake Burley
Music by Jake Burley
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