The Hole In Your Brain That Makes You Doomscroll

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Chapters & Sections (23)

0:00 Curiosity and the Pandora Effect chapter 2
2:09 Psychology Experiment on Information Gaps
4:21 Curiosity: Virtue or Sin?
7:04 Historical Shift of Curiosity from Sin to Virtue chapter 3
9:40 Etymology and Historical Perception of Curiosity
11:21 Curiosity as Information Gap
14:32 Dopamine, Curiosity, and Compulsion
16:38 Curiosity Gap and Memory Retention chapter 2
18:28 Seven Dwarfs Curiosity Gap Example
19:43 Teaching With Curiosity Gaps
21:37 Curiosity and Learning from Wrong Answers chapter 2
22:46 Wrong Answers Reveal Knowledge Gaps
24:31 Baby Curiosity and Physics Testing
26:28 Curiosity, Dopamine, and Doomscrolling chapter 2
28:30 Curiosity Exploitation and OpenAI Experiment
30:01 Algorithmic Exploitation of Curiosity
31:37 Dopamine, Curiosity Hunger, and Information Seeking chapter 2
34:42 Recalling Seven Dwarfs Names
35:50 Information as an Independent Reward
38:01 Evolutionary Benefits of Morbid Curiosity chapter 3
40:23 Psychological Resilience and Morbid Curiosity
41:52 NASA Rover Curiosity Naming Story
43:16 Curiosity, Coolness, and Information Currency

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