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Making Sense of Social Media

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Power of Persuasion

The economic model that serves as the oxygen that keeps social media monsters breathing, advertising. Is there a point when advertising can become too effective and has social media pushed just over that threshold? Jaren Lanier is a computer scientist and Silicon Valley pioneer who launched virtual reality companies in the mid-80s. He's among those who have since begun to question what they may have been missing. This is from episode 136, digital humanism.

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