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Live From the Comedy Cellar: Comedy, Free Speech, and Why the Last 10 Years of American Life Have Been So Uniquely Stupid with Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff, and Rikki Schlott

The Psychology Podcast

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Is There a Control Over What Gets Amped Up?

Cancell culture is just one part of the way that we distort the way we argue. We need to create spaces where people can address the argument and actually in a truth seeking manner, not just for social points. And I also am worried about the algorithms. Sure. The social algorithms are solving for achori. You know, like how much device it is. Is there how many shares in a negative way? And how much, you know, and that's what gets amplified. That's what I say when we think we can have some control over what gets amplified by changing those algorithms.

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