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#231 — Crossing the Abyss

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Social Media Is a Confirmation of Prophecy

The problem i'm perceiving here though, is that we have a kind of positive feedback loop, otherwise known as a a self fulfilling prophecy. And so everything you're proving that we have begun to do, i your kicking people off of social media anda trying to make it more difficult for those platforms to be a medium of radicalization,. That is being viewed as not only an expression of hostility to their cherished beliefs, which it is, but precisely the kind of orelian overreach that their paranoia is the antidote for. It's a confirmation a world view that we're seen.

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