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Making Sense of Social Media

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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Surveillance Capitalism

The first blush of enthusiasm for the internet connecting us all as an unambiguous good has faded. As this technology connects people and empowers us, it's also fragmenting us in ways that are fairly difficult to correct for. It's creating new levers of influence that could lead to more authoritarian control and perverse forms of persuasion. The thing I fear is that this is a perfect setup for authoritarians because it allows them to survey the population and to nudge them using machine learning at scale.

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