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John Larson

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Oct 13, 2026

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We Asked an AI About Its Own Incentives. It Gave the Answer Nobody Expected.

Oct 13 · 1 Mention

JuliusHOST
4:27
Nineteen twenty-one, Berkeley.
JuliusHOST
4:30
A police officer and a medical student named John Larson builds the first polygraph because juries and cops had spent all of human history trying to read trustworthiness from faces, and it turns out we're terrible at it.
JuliusHOST
4:44
The polygraph was the moment we stopped asking, "Does the suspect seem honest?" And started measuring.
JuliusHOST
4:50
Trust moved from vibes to evidence.
Vaughn SmithHOST
68:27
year was 1920.
Vaughn SmithHOST
68:28
John Larson had joined a police department with a PhD in physiology.
Vaughn SmithHOST
68:32
He was the first rookie cop in America with a doctorate.
Vaughn SmithHOST
68:35
Right.
Greg BouldenHOST
38:24
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has received a litany of complaints about religious ideology seeping into military orders since the U.S. and Israel began bombing Iran.
Greg BouldenHOST
38:34
Independent journalist John Larson first reported.
Greg BouldenHOST
38:39
Apparently, Pete Hegseth is taking this.
Greg BouldenHOST
38:41
Donald Trump is taking this to the part where he's saying it's all part of God's plan.

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