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The Balance of Happiness and Meaning W/ Chris Williamson #368

Aubrey Marcus Podcast

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The Biggest Problem We're Facing Is Capture and Corruption

The biggest problem we're facing from a meta level is capture. I mean, all these agencies are captured. The regulatory bodies are getting funding, and the politicians are getting fundy from the people who are in the monopoly. So not only are they learning our preferences, but they are impacting our preferences so that we become more predictable. That's the law of unintended consequences. This is one of the things where, with twitter, opening up the algorithm is probably a relatively simple task. People are going to be able to go in and say, ok, like, what are the things that are being shadow banded and down voted? And it has all these euphemisms for bribes, you know

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