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11: Sam Harris - Fighting with Friends

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Is Twitter a Psychological Experiment?

i had been talking about twitter and social media generally as psychological experiment that we were running our on ourselves. I emotionally like this s because iom getting a lot of my news that way, i following smart people. And then somebody like nasim teleb says somethingw outrageously stupid, that isdirected at me, right? And it goes out to hundreds of thousands of people. And so, you know, it's an opportunity for me to tell em to fuck off. So find some way to say that. It does look like i'm now in touch with the, you sit, get diffused, yes now. The skilful diffusal of those conflicts is its own public

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