
Doom and Gloom... Now What?
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Anger and Fear Are Like Drugs
I think with journalism and with news, there's no strong economic incentive is not toward reasonableness. I'm really I'm going to need to get fact checked. So we've talked about that Andrew Huberman guy, Stanford neuroscientist. He said a long time ago before medical research ethics were better established. There'd be massive brain chemical rewards for firing up anger and fear. It's very primal and this sort of, you know, well, it's useful. And then there's plenty been said and documented now about how all the algorithms are designed to have people feel more positive than they actually do.
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