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Are we all the heroes of our own stories? (with Cate Hall)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Problem With Weaponization of Persuasive Technology

The ability to create memes that spread very effectively and ways of presenting information is very effective at manipulating people. The logic of the ends justify the means can feel really persuasive, but as we've discussed in general, I think that that's a way of reasoning about these situations that is fraught with a lot of hazard.

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