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Richard Sutton
Richard S. Sutton is a Canadian computer scientist, co-winner of the 2024 Turing Award for developing the foundations of reinforcement learning, and Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta.
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Aug 11, 2026
Trust trumps horsepower for female car buyers
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22:16Nduduzo RamellaHOST
How do you self-regulate when you look at the emotions that come with it, right? So whether it's fear, uh, whether it's anxiety that is also mixed with w- wanting the best for yourself.
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Earlier you, you talked about unemployment, and there was a, a large meta-analysis, huge, uh, collaboration between Stanford and Harvard universities looking at around 228 high-quality studies and the implications of unemployment and insecurity in that space and how it impacts mental and emotional wellbeing.
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And, and what they uncovered was that the impact is absolutely astronomical.
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It increases the odds of developing depression or anxiety or even dying from all causes, uh, prematurely.
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Significantly, the depression anxiety piece was a 90% higher risk, and all cause mortality was 40% higher risk.
Preparing for the Salt Lake Temple Celebration
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10:08Richard SuttonGUEST
So there are replica rooms of sacred spaces in the Temple Square Visitor Center replicating temple spaces.
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10:16Richard SuttonGUEST
And so you have an instruction room, you have a baptistry, you have a celestial room, and you have a ceiling room that are all there to walk through and an audiovisual presentation that helps guide a guest through the temple and the experience there.
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And so we're able to open ourselves up as a church to say, okay, usually only when a temple is just about to be dedicated, we have a few weeks, maybe a few months in some areas to go through the temple.
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10:42Richard SuttonGUEST
Even the Salt Lake Temple will be open for six months and then we'll be rededicated.
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Shift Happens podcast: Lessons from guests
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Saskia FalkenHOST
But are there any common themes or lessons about change that keep on emerging for you so far?
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4:13Richard SuttonGUEST
I think everyone has a unique story, and that's what I've come to understand.
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4:20Richard SuttonGUEST
The first is that success is more of a relationship story than an achievement story.
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4:26Richard SuttonGUEST
Behind every guest, their experiences, their roads, their dreams, their aspirations has been people, people who've believed in them, challenged them, and also carried them through difficult situations or difficult seasons in their lives.
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4:45Richard SuttonGUEST
But another piece was also very powerful, and that is deliberate reinvention.

Saskia FalkenHOST
I mean, what have you noticed about egos in talking to all of these successful people?
Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
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Richard SuttonGUEST
It does not, uh, we don't think, we don't think about training when we think of the, a, an infant growing up.

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If you go to look about how psychologists think about learning, there's nothing like, uh, imitation.

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Maybe there are some ex- extreme cases where humans might do that or appear to do that, but there's no basic animal learning process called imitation.

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The basic le- animal learning process is for prediction and for trial and error control.
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