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#315 — The Great Derangement

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Future of Media and Social Media

CNN and the 24 hour news channel were incentivized to train the eye of the media on each new catastrophe or pseudo catastrophe. The internet with its ad-based business model basically locked in a certain kind of incentives. And now we're living in many respects with the implications of a machine we've built that is just designed to gain people's attention based on outrage and partisan division.

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