Prosthetic Gods

Life-Hacking, or The Examined Life?

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Episode 12 - Life-Hacking, or The Examined Life?

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? 

Links:
  • 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

    • Credits:

    Hosted by James Hughes and Nir Eisikovits

    Produced by Jake Burley
    Music by Jake Burley

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