And that anticipation enhances their wellbeing.

But individuals with severe depression, they have a pessimistic bias.

And it's a global phenomenon.

These have to be identified by scientific investigation.

Bodily functionality and morphology and affective self control.

Here are the results of what I just showed you.

Here's how it went.

I'm going to talk to you about optimism or more precisely, the optimism bias.

And at this point we stopped and we asked ourselves, would we want to shatter the optimism illusion into tiny little bits?

If we could do that, would we want to take people's optimism bias away?

This is definitely a subjective question, and it's kind of strange that a discipline like computer science is so poorly defined that if you ask many computer scientists what it is you'll get very different answers.

Reality is both subjective and malleable.

His writing is very subjective.

So a conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

And the bottom line of this part of my talk is this

Now we interfere with the region that we found to integrate negative information in this task, and the optimism bias grew even larger.

logical, universal, factual, scientific.

So they have adjusted the 2012 Olympic budget for the optimism bias.

The optimist looks into a mirror and becomes more optimistic, the pessimist more pessimistic.

So they tend to expect the future to be worse than it ends up being.

Could we alter people's optimism bias by interfering with the brain activity in these regions?

That's a bad pun on objectivity and subjectivity.

The D term avoids the overshoot, if used wisely.

I am by turns an optimist and a pessimist.

This is very interesting. Cultural perceptions are subjective.

Let go of your negative outlook on life.

Complete suitable for statistical studies and everything else was extra.

60 now or 50 in a month?

Then we interfered with the brain region that we found to integrate good news in this task, and the optimism bias disappeared.

And this figure gives us a clue for how to distinguish between these two cases.

This is just a graph showing the results that I just suggested you would show if I gave you time to respond, which is, people find that the subjective value of 50 is higher than the subjective value of 60 when they'll be delivered in now or one month, respectively a 30 day delay but they show the reverse pattern when you push the entire decision off into the future a year.

In my theory, language evolves in such a way that sounds match, correspond with, the subjective, with the personal, intuitive experience of the listener.

JA I'm not sure about the incident.

Always the optimist...

Stop being so pessimistic!

And I just want to make it absolutely clear that he's a really bad example of the optimism bias, because he is in fact uniquely talented.

From an objective viewpoint, his argument was far from rational.

And so, if you see this combination, that's a sign that your algorithm may be suffering from high bias.

That's about all it can do.

I started to realize that, you know, this is actually a universal story.

You don't know that. Don't think that way.

I'm not that optimistic.

Let's call this scenario one, which is kind of the best scenario.

Don't be so pessimistic.

Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply led approach to impose democratic values from the top down.