OPENAI COFOUNDER SAYS EMOTIONS MAY BE WHY WE CAN MAKE DECISIONS
ilya brings up a guy who lost emotional processing after brain damage. he could still talk normally and solve problems, but somehow became terrible at making basic decisions
"It would take him hours to decide on which socks to wear."
we spend so much time treating emotions like the annoying part of thinking. calm down, remove the feelings, be logical
then you remove them completely and even choosing socks becomes a serious problem
kinda changes how i look at AI advice too. it can give you 20 perfectly reasonable answers in seconds, but somebody still has to care which outcome actually matters
you can understand every option and still not know which one matters to you