As long as we have a higher arousal slot machine based information system, there will be people who will be radicalized by it in various ways. It seems like Kanye West, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, a lot of people have exhibited similar symptoms of what you could call algorithmic brain poisoning. I spent a lot of time with people who were brought down a particular rabbit hole of male supremacy, white supremacy and anti-Semitism. But when I saw Kanye West going down this path, I could immediately almost guess, almost like a bingo card. He's thinking, given what he had been looking at before, it was not very hard for me to see where the algorithms would push him next

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