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#659 - Rob Brooks - Why Are People Falling In Love With Robots?

Modern Wisdom

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The Rise of Manipulation in the Age of Social Media

In the same way as how social media companies had a degree of insight around our motivations what we're into what we don't like that opened up Cambridge Analytica to feed information back up. People could then create memes those memes then pushed the individual buttons that certain cohorts would find compelling to get them to vote in one direction or another. In this new world with a much higher density amount of information emotionally spiritually physically sexually etc all of these things combined together is going to really really ramp up the amount of manipulation that can be done. If your supermarket is indeed speaking to your dildo that it's going to be able to push your behavior in ways that we might not want it to yes and

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