Religion & Technology Through A Symbolic Lens W/ Jonathan Pageau #384
Aubrey Marcus Podcast
What Are the Algorithms Really Wanting?
Social media has become integrated deeply into our lives and is also a pattern that is used to generate power. And so you have to appease the God of basically meta or Facebook or whoever, whatever Twitter or whatever thing you're playing. There's no one, there's no single person controlling them. It's like a weird conjoining of attention and human will and social fashions and ideological possession. So in many ways, they're capricious like the stories of the old gods where you could get on Zeus's bad side or Hera's bad side even if you didn't really deserve it.
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