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Making Sense of Social Media

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Intimate Weave of Technology

We are increasingly reliant on the central node of our smartphone to be a router for where all of our attention goes. When you think about a supercomputer pointed at your brain trying to figure out what's the perfect next thing to show you, that's on one side of the screen. On the other side is my prefrontal cortex which has evolved millions of years ago and doing the best job it can to do goal articulation, goal retention and memory. The same is true on Facebook. Each time you swipe up with your finger, you know, you're activating a Twitter or a Facebook or a TikTok supercomputer that have billions of data points on exactly the thing that'll keep you here.

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