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Jaron Lanier: Fear of an Algorithmic Planet

Decoding the Gurus

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The Cultural Revolution, Isn't It?

Tiktok is inexorably on a path to the manipulation machine. And so we're seeing that transition happen on tiktok now. It's hard to criticise somebody who's having fun dancing on tick to and yet it is part of this thing. The connection, to me and barry wises, isn't it really the chinese communist party at the heart, like, making everybody dance? Is it? Or is it the like medium of tik tok lends itself to those short clips with music? Yes, i didn't like the term dicedo maism, but my interpretation of it was not so dramatic. But in that framing there, when they

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