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Ep 337: Luke Burgis Sees the Deer at His Window
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
The Obstacles to a Public Intellectual's Task
I do think that the peak moment that moral panic is kind of passing and let's hope that's true I also pick on your phrase where you spoke about appealing to baser instincts. There are design choices that have exacerbated this which were made to increase engagement but ended up in this way for example very famously the Facebook like button or the Twitter retweet. And there are ways of sort of amping the amping the down a bit for example just as a social media platform Reddit has a very different kind of user interface and design and is much less toxic than Twitter. So maybe there's hope there my penultimate question for you is that how do you view your task as a public intellectual? You
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