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>>Jon Snow: None of you talked about regulation and regulation --
>>Dan Ariely: No, I think, for example, the understanding -- Let's just kind of -- I like
the optimism. It's kind of nice to be optimistic, and there's lots of correct things about this
optimism but let's think about something else about irrationality. Raise of hands, how many
people here have eaten in the last week more than you think you should. Anybody?
Okay. How many people in the last month have exercised less than you think you should?
How many people here have ever texted while driving? Come on.
How many people have ever had an unplanned, unprotected sex?
[ Laughter ] >>Matt Ridley: A long time ago.
>>Laurie Santos: Politicians. >>> How far back?
>>Dan Ariely: Now, if you think about all of these problems, these are things that we
don't just agree that we have done before. These are things that we all recognize we
will do again. [ Laughter ]
>>Dan Ariely: And it tells you that we have this dramatic problem between short term and
long term; right? And I think that left to the human spirit, long term and short term
is going to be a tremendous problem for us. And technology is actually making it harder;
right? So I will be the counter optimist.
Look, the next version of the smartphone, is it going to be more tempting or less tempting
to text while driving? It has to be more tempting; right? They want us to do it more.
The next version of the doughnut, doughnut 2.0, right in for tempting or less tempting?
It has to be more tempting.