e going to be good for you and which are bad really just replaces willpower because you don't really want to do things that are bad for you. It just comes naturally.

That's why "alcohol is poison" is such a strong reframe.

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Well, let's check the technology news, the science news, and find out what science is teaching us. Well, according to the MIT Technology Review, Michelle Kim is writing that AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements. That's right. If you let somebody interact with a chatbot, the chatbot will be more persuasive than a commercial. Does that surprise you? It should not.

Because you're probably thinking to yourself, "Wait, Scott, have you not taught us that the documentary effect is very persuasive even if it shouldn't be?" Yeah. The influence from having one point of view reinforced, you know, with either watching a documentary for an hour with no counterpoint would be very similar, I would think, to having a chatbot that also had only one point of view that it considered valid. So yes, a chatbot should be more persuasive.

And I think we're also as humans, we're also sort of built to assume that humans might lie to us because they have personal interests. Whereas if you knew you were talking to an AI, you wouldn't necessarily feel that it was so obvious that the AI had a personal interest because it wouldn't have a personal interest, but it would certainly be presented by someone who did. So in theory, we should be just as suspicious of the AI as we would be of the person who built the AI. But I don't think we would. I think you would be more persuaded by the AI because you would think, well, the AI isn't going to lie to me, is it? Well, it might or it might hallucinate.

In other news, yeah, this is technology news. According to The Conversation, people who talk with their hands seem more clear and persuasive. How many of you already knew that? That if people talk with their hands, they can be way more persuasive than if they don't. But the key is you can't randomly use your hands. So it's bad to be Governor Newsom and do jazz hands because we always mock him because it looks like he's lying and it looks like his hands are not even connected to his brain. I don't even know why my hands are doing this really. I'm Governor Newsom and I can't stop my hands. So that would be an example of not persuasive.

But if you were saying that something is huge and you use your hands, the hand would be compatible with the message "huge." Something's going up. Something's taller than this. That tends to be very persuasive. So do more of that and less of this. Don't do that. All right. I know what I just did to myself there. That will get clipped. Remind me never to do that again. You have my permission to drive to my house and slap me if I ever do that again. Not really. Don't slap me.

Let's see what else. Oh, here's a good one. The Wall Street Journal is reporting, according to Daniel Akst, that the more oxytocin you have, the faster you'll heal. So apparently they've done tests where you can heal your wounds faster. Oh my god, there's just like a gigantic mechanical noise right outside my door. What the heck is that? I'm glad it doesn't show up in the microphone. Okay, now it's gone.

But Wall Street Journal reporting that if you have oxytocin, that would be the intimacy chemical. If you're intimate with somebody you love, you get more oxytocin. Well, apparently that's good for your healing. Now, I like to put a couple of things together here. So if you want to be more persuasive, you would talk with your hands and you would use that to persuade somebody to be intimate with you. Hey, wouldn't you like to with me? See how persuasive tha