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308. AI: The Beast or Jerusalem? | Jonathan Pageau & Jim Keller

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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I Don't Want to Go Back, I'm Happy to Live Here and Have These Tech Things

Jonathan Mann: We optimize the manner in which we interact with our electronic gadgets to capture short-term attention. There's a difference between getting what you want right now, right now, and getting what you need across a reasonable span of time. And one of the things that does seem to be happening online, he says, is that we're assaulted by systems that parasitize our short- term attention. But it isn't obvious to me that they're going to optimize for the attention that works over the medium to long run, or could conceivably maximize something like whim-centered existence.

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