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The bad news is that humans are involved.", "context": "The narrator notes that the involvement of humans complicates the allocation of the treaty funds.", "char_start": 156, "char_end": 220, "start_ms": 10640, "end_ms": 14360, "duration_ms": 3720, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 3, "title": "Automatic Deductions", "narration_text": "\n\nNot all of it is available for allocation. First, the automatic deductions (think of these as the \"cost of convincing humans to stop killing each other\" tax):", "context": "Introduction to the various mandatory deductions that reduce the total fund before allocation.", "char_start": 220, "char_end": 381, "start_ms": 15260, "end_ms": 25520, "duration_ms": 10260, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 4, "title": "Victory Bond Repayment", "narration_text": "\n\nVICTORY Incentive Alignment Bond investors receive ten percent, or two point seven two billion dollars, to repay campaign funders.", "context": "Describing the first deduction meant to repay the investors who funded the campaign.", "char_start": 381, "char_end": 514, "start_ms": 26020, "end_ms": 34640, "duration_ms": 8620, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 5, "title": "Political Alignment", "narration_text": "\n\nPolitical incentives from Incentive Alignment Bonds receive ten percent, or two point seven two billion dollars, to keep politicians aligned.", "context": "Detailing the second deduction used to ensure politicians remain aligned with the treaty's goals.", "char_start": 514, "char_end": 656, "start_ms": 35280, "end_ms": 44840, "duration_ms": 9560, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 6, "title": "Wishocracy's Share", "narration_text": "\n\nEighty percent, or twenty-one point eight billion dollars, is available for Wishocracy as the amount you get to allocate.", "context": "Revealing the final amount available for allocation through the Wishocracy system.", "char_start": 656, "char_end": 777, "start_ms": 44840, "end_ms": 52440, "duration_ms": 7600, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 7, "title": "Resisting Special Interests", "narration_text": "\n\nHow do you stop parasitic special interests from stealing that twenty-one point eight billion dollars? If history is any guide, you don't.", "context": "The narrator questions how to protect the fund from lobbyists and special interest groups.", "char_start": 777, "char_end": 916, "start_ms": 53520, "end_ms": 61900, "duration_ms": 8380, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 8, "title": "Lobbyist Ants", "narration_text": " Every pool of money humanity has ever created has attracted lobbyists the way a dropped ice cream cone attracts ants, except ants at least work hard.", "context": "A cynical comparison between the behavior of lobbyists and ants attracted to sugar.", "char_start": 916, "char_end": 1067, "start_ms": 62620, "end_ms": 72160, "duration_ms": 9540, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 9, "title": "Code vs Committees", "narration_text": "\n\nWishocracy replaces committees with code and representatives with mathematics. It lets eight billion people collectively decide how to spend ", "context": "Explaining how Wishocracy uses mathematics and code to bypass traditional bureaucratic hurdles.", "char_start": 1067, "char_end": 1211, "start_ms": 72500, "end_ms": 82420, "duration_ms": 9920, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 10, "title": "Avoiding Nightmares", "narration_text": "twenty-one point eight billion dollars without turning it into a bureaucratic nightmare.", "context": "Emphasizing that the system allows for mass decision-making without creating inefficiency.", "char_start": 1211, "char_end": 1299, "start_ms": 81420, "end_ms": 87100, "duration_ms": 5680, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 11, "title": "The Stomach Analogy", "narration_text": "\nThe difference between this and the N.I.H. is like asking two hundred bureaucrats what you should have for lunch versus asking your stomach.", "context": "A humorous comparison between centralized government research funding and biological instinct.", "char_start": 1299, "char_end": 1440, "start_ms": 87740, "end_ms": 95180, "duration_ms": 7440, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 12, "title": "Professional Courtesy", "narration_text": " Your stomach has never once funded a colleague's lunch out of professional courtesy.", "context": "The narrator highlights the lack of political bias in biological needs compared to bureaucracies.", "char_start": 1440, "char_end": 1525, "start_ms": 95820, "end_ms": 100460, "duration_ms": 4640, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 13, "title": "Branding Wishonia", "narration_text": "\n\nOn my home planet (also called Wishonia, because we named the system after ourselves, which your species would call \"branding\"),", "context": "The narrator shares background information about their home planet's naming and culture.", "char_start": 1525, "char_end": 1654, "start_ms": 101180, "end_ms": 108410, "duration_ms": 7230, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 14, "title": "Alien Wishocracy", "narration_text": " we've been running Wishocracy for four thousand two hundred and ninety-seven years. It still works.", "context": "Providing historical proof of Wishocracy's longevity and success on the narrator's home world.", "char_start": 1654, "char_end": 1754, "start_ms": 109340, "end_ms": 115180, "duration_ms": 5840, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 15, "title": "Allocation Method", "narration_text": "\n\nHow Wishocracy Allocates the one percent Treaty Fund: Decentralized Crowdfunding.", "context": "Introducing the specific mechanism of decentralized crowdfunding used to allocate funds.", "char_start": 1754, "char_end": 1836, "start_ms": 116300, "end_ms": 121760, "duration_ms": 5460, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 16, "title": "Campaign Proposals", "narration_text": "\n\nYour decentralized institutes of health network functions as a decentralized crowdfunding platform. Anyone can submit a campaign proposal.", "context": "Explaining the open-access nature of the platform where anyone can propose a project.", "char_start": 1836, "char_end": 1976, "start_ms": 120920, "end_ms": 131940, "duration_ms": 11020, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 17, "title": "Competing Campaigns", "narration_text": " Wishocracy allocates funds from the one percent Treaty Fund across competing campaigns.", "context": "Detailing how the funds are spread across various health-related proposals.", "char_start": 1976, "char_end": 2064, "start_ms": 131580, "end_ms": 137500, "duration_ms": 5920, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 18, "title": "Global Kickstarter", "narration_text": "\nIt's Kickstarter, but backed by the G.D.P. of nations instead of your friend's credit card.", "context": "A modern comparison to help humans understand the scale and security of the funding.", "char_start": 2064, "char_end": 2157, "start_ms": 136820, "end_ms": 143220, "duration_ms": 6400, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 19, "title": "Automated FDA", "narration_text": "\n\nWhat your decentralized F.D.A. handles automatically (no voting required):", "context": "Defining the processes that are handled algorithmically without the need for collective voting.", "char_start": 2157, "char_end": 2232, "start_ms": 142760, "end_ms": 149060, "duration_ms": 6300, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 20, "title": "Testing Choices", "narration_text": "\n\nFor which treatments get tested, companies register and patients choose (capitalism doing something useful).", "context": "Explaining how market forces and patient choice determine which treatments enter testing.", "char_start": 2232, "char_end": 2342, "start_ms": 148420, "end_ms": 156160, "duration_ms": 7740, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 21, "title": "Diseases and Mortality", "narration_text": "\n\nFor which diseases get researched, patients join trials for their conditions (people tend to be motivated about their own mortality).", "context": "Describing how patient participation drives the direction of disease research.", "char_start": 2342, "char_end": 2477, "start_ms": 156620, "end_ms": 164840, "duration_ms": 8220, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 22, "title": "Resource Allocation", "narration_text": "\n\nResource allocation within trials is handled by market prices and participant choices.", "context": "Detailing how resources within medical trials are distributed through market mechanics.", "char_start": 2477, "char_end": 2565, "start_ms": 164280, "end_ms": 170940, "duration_ms": 6660, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 23, "title": "Wishocracy's Hard Decisions", "narration_text": "\n\nWhat Wishocracy Actually Decides:\n\nThe hard stuff. Allocation across campaign proposals competing for one percent Treaty Fund funds:", "context": "Defining the core subjective decisions that the Wishocracy system handles.", "char_start": 2565, "char_end": 2700, "start_ms": 170420, "end_ms": 180640, "duration_ms": 10220, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 24, "title": "Infrastructure Plumbing", "narration_text": "\n\nInfrastructure Campaigns (the boring but essential plumbing).\n\nThe Decentralized Framework for Drug Assessment Development has a one billion dollar per year proposal.", "context": "Listing the necessary infrastructure projects that require large-scale funding.", "char_start": 2700, "char_end": 2869, "start_ms": 180260, "end_ms": 190980, "duration_ms": 10720, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 25, "title": "EHR Integration", "narration_text": "\n\nThe Epic electronic health records, or E.H.R. integration project, is five million dollars one-time.", "context": "A specific one-time funding proposal for health record system integration.", "char_start": 2869, "char_end": 2970, "start_ms": 190980, "end_ms": 198260, "duration_ms": 7280, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 26, "title": "AWS Services", "narration_text": "\n\nAmazon Web Services, or A.W.S. infrastructure services, is three million dollars per year.", "context": "Mentioning the recurring cost for cloud infrastructure to support the system.", "char_start": 2970, "char_end": 3061, "start_ms": 198260, "end_ms": 204520, "duration_ms": 6260, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 27, "title": "Security Audit", "narration_text": "\n\nThe Security Audit Program is two million dollars per year.", "context": "Detailing the annual cost for maintaining the security of the decentralized health network.", "char_start": 3061, "char_end": 3121, "start_ms": 205180, "end_ms": 208640, "duration_ms": 3460, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 28, "title": "FDA Competition", "narration_text": "\n\nAn alternative decentralized F.D.A. is eight million dollars per year (competition! novel concept for government!).", "context": "The narrator mocks the government's lack of competition while introducing a funded alternative.", "char_start": 3121, "char_end": 3237, "start_ms": 208300, "end_ms": 217380, "duration_ms": 9080, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 29, "title": "Public Goods", "narration_text": "\n\nPublic Goods (things the market won't fund because nobody gets rich curing diseases that don't sell pills).", "context": "Defining the 'Public Goods' category, which covers non-profitable medical research.", "char_start": 3237, "char_end": 3345, "start_ms": 216880, "end_ms": 224280, "duration_ms": 7400, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 30, "title": "Trial Subsidies", "narration_text": "\n\n\"Patient Trial Subsidies Program\" — eight hundred million dollars per year (automatic formula).", "context": "A fund set aside to help patients participate in clinical trials.", "char_start": 3345, "char_end": 3440, "start_ms": 223900, "end_ms": 229960, "duration_ms": 6060, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 31, "title": "Off-Patent Research", "narration_text": "\n\n\"Off-Patent Drug Research\" — twenty billion dollars per year.", "context": "A massive allocation for researching drugs that are no longer protected by patents.", "char_start": 3440, "char_end": 3502, "start_ms": 229640, "end_ms": 234560, "duration_ms": 4920, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 32, "title": "Rare Diseases and Failures", "narration_text": "\n\n\"Rare Disease Initiative\" — ten billion dollars per year.\n\n\"Negative Results Publishing Fund\" — five billion dollars per year", "context": "Allocations for rare diseases and the crucial sharing of failed experimental data.", "char_start": 3502, "char_end": 3629, "start_ms": 233980, "end_ms": 242360, "duration_ms": 8380, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 33, "title": "Value of Negative Results", "narration_text": "\n\n(yes, knowing what *doesn't* work is worth billions; your species keeps re-running failed experiments because nobody publishes failures).", "context": "The narrator criticizes humanity's habit of repeating mistakes due to hidden negative data.", "char_start": 3629, "char_end": 3769, "start_ms": 241860, "end_ms": 251760, "duration_ms": 9900, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 34, "title": "Service Bidding", "narration_text": "\n\nService Provider Bids (capitalism, but supervised).\n\n\"Data Storage Provider A\" — two billion dollars per year.", "context": "Explaining the supervised bidding process for service providers within the system.", "char_start": 3769, "char_end": 3880, "start_ms": 251820, "end_ms": 260180, "duration_ms": 8360, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 35, "title": "Storage Competition", "narration_text": "\n\n\"Data Storage Provider B\" — one point five billion dollars per year (competing).", "context": "Showing how competition between providers keeps the costs of the infrastructure down.", "char_start": 3880, "char_end": 3962, "start_ms": 260079, "end_ms": 265360, "duration_ms": 5281, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 36, "title": "Pragmatic Insurance Pool", "narration_text": "\"Pragmatic Clinical Trial Insurance Pool\" — ten billion dollar reserve.\n\nHow It Works: Pairwise Comparisons Between Campaigns.", "context": "Introducing the 10 billion dollar Pragmatic Clinical Trial Insurance Pool and its fundamental operational mechanism.", "char_start": 7944, "char_end": 8070, "start_ms": 541740, "end_ms": 550940, "duration_ms": 9200, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 37, "title": "Committees Fail", "narration_text": "\n\nNo committee on Earth has ever looked at a list of ten thousand proposals and made a good decision. Committees are where good ideas go to die of old age.", "context": "Explaining why traditional committees fail at making good decisions when faced with large numbers of proposals.", "char_start": 8070, "char_end": 8224, "start_ms": 550520, "end_ms": 559940, "duration_ms": 9420, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 38, "title": "Pairwise Comparisons", "narration_text": " Instead, the global population votes using pairwise comparisons:\n\n\"What's more important right now:\"", "context": "Introducing the concept of pairwise comparisons as an alternative to committee-based decision making.", "char_start": 8224, "char_end": 8321, "start_ms": 559660, "end_ms": 566260, "duration_ms": 6600, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 39, "title": "Priority Trade-offs", "narration_text": "\n\n\"Framework for drug assessment development\" versus \"Alzheimer's prize\"?\n\n\"Epic integration\" versus \"Security audits\"?", "context": "Giving specific examples of the trade-offs voters might face between infrastructure and medical prizes.", "char_start": 8321, "char_end": 8443, "start_ms": 565920, "end_ms": 574560, "duration_ms": 8640, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 40, "title": "Research Allocations", "narration_text": "\n\n\"Rare disease research\" versus \"An alternative drug assessment framework\"?\n\n\"Patient subsidies\" versus \"Infrastructure spending\"?", "context": "Further examples of pairwise choices between research goals and infrastructure spending.", "char_start": 8443, "char_end": 8582, "start_ms": 574340, "end_ms": 583380, "duration_ms": 9040, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 41, "title": "Preferred Funding", "narration_text": "\n\nMillions of people make simple pairwise choices. The algorithm aggregates preferences into funding allocations. No filibustering.", "context": "Describing how mass participation in simple choices leads to definitive funding allocations without political delays.", "char_start": 8582, "char_end": 8717, "start_ms": 582740, "end_ms": 592060, "duration_ms": 9320, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 42, "title": "No More Filibustering", "narration_text": " No horse-trading. No senators holding medical research hostage because they want a highway in their district.\n\nWhy You Can't Just Use a Spreadsheet.", "context": "Emphasizing that this method removes political obstacles like filibustering and district-based pork-barrel politics.", "char_start": 8717, "char_end": 8873, "start_ms": 591960, "end_ms": 604460, "duration_ms": 12500, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 43, "title": "Implementation Choices", "narration_text": "\n\nSomeone is going to ask, \"Why not just write a formula?\" Because the decisions look like this:\n\nOne. Multiple competing implementations —", "context": "Addressing the question of why a simple formula isn't sufficient for complex implementation choices.", "char_start": 8873, "char_end": 9010, "start_ms": 603820, "end_ms": 613880, "duration_ms": 10060, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 44, "title": "Team Competition", "narration_text": " Three teams want to build the drug assessment platform. Which one? All three? Two? The one with the best logo?", "context": "Illustrating the difficulty of choosing between different teams proposing the same infrastructure projects.", "char_start": 9010, "char_end": 9122, "start_ms": 613880, "end_ms": 622740, "duration_ms": 8860, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 45, "title": "Valuation Trade-offs", "narration_text": "\n\nTwo. Trade-offs between prizes — one hundred billion dollars for aging reversal or fifty billion dollars for Alzheimer's plus fifty billion dollars for cancer?", "context": "Humanity must decide how to value general versus specific medical research outcomes.", "char_start": 9122, "char_end": 9280, "start_ms": 622200, "end_ms": 634760, "duration_ms": 12560, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 46, "title": "Collective Values", "narration_text": " There is no \"correct\" answer. There is only what humanity collectively values, which is exactly what Wishocracy measures.", "context": "Explaining that the goal is not a formulaic 'correct' answer, but a measurement of collective human values.", "char_start": 9280, "char_end": 9404, "start_ms": 634340, "end_ms": 643840, "duration_ms": 9500, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 47, "title": "Public Goods", "narration_text": "\n\nThree. Public goods allocation — How much for off-patent drugs versus rare diseases? Markets won't answer this because there's no profit in it.", "context": "Highlighting where markets fail, such as in the funding of off-patent drugs and rare disease research.", "char_start": 9404, "char_end": 9556, "start_ms": 643540, "end_ms": 653300, "duration_ms": 9760, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 48, "title": "Service Competition", "narration_text": "\n\nFour. Service provider competition — Which companies get contracts for what amounts?", "context": "Managing the competitive bidding process between different service providers within the system.", "char_start": 9556, "char_end": 9645, "start_ms": 653300, "end_ms": 659640, "duration_ms": 6340, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 49, "title": "Steering and Engines", "narration_text": "\n\nYour decentralized F.D.A. allocates resources WITHIN pragmatic clinical trials. Wishocracy allocates resources BETWEEN campaigns.", "context": "Defining the separate roles of the decentralized FDA and Wishocracy in resource allocation.", "char_start": 9645, "char_end": 9776, "start_ms": 660200, "end_ms": 669800, "duration_ms": 9600, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 50, "title": "Steering the Wheel", "narration_text": " One is the engine, the other is the steering wheel. You need both unless you enjoy driving into walls.", "context": "An analogy explaining why both clinical trial management and overarching priority setting are necessary.", "char_start": 9776, "char_end": 9881, "start_ms": 669320, "end_ms": 677140, "duration_ms": 7820, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 51, "title": "Simple Voting", "narration_text": "\n\nThe core of Wishocracy is a voting method so simple, even a congressman could do it (though we'd recommend they practice first).", "context": "Humorously describing the core simplicity of the Wishocracy voting system.", "char_start": 9881, "char_end": 10014, "start_ms": 677140, "end_ms": 686660, "duration_ms": 9520, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 52, "title": "APPA", "narration_text": " It's called Aggregated Pairwise Preference Allocation, or simply, the Pairwise Slider Allocation.", "context": "Formally naming the voting method used by the Wishocracy platform.", "char_start": 10014, "char_end": 10112, "start_ms": 687260, "end_ms": 693620, "duration_ms": 6360, "timestamp_source": "alignment", "_auto_generated": { "keyframe_prompt": "", "veo_prompt": "" } }, { "scene_index": 53, "title": "Comparison Strength", "narration_text": "\n\nYour brain can't rank a list of twenty priorities. It gives up around item number seven. 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