
#71 — What Is Technology Doing to Us?
Making Sense with Sam Harris
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Meditation Apps
Time on site seems somewhat insidious as a standard, except if you imagine that the content is intrinsically good. So now time on my app will be time spent practicing meditation. And so in so far as I think that's an intrinsically good thing for someone to be doing, anything I do in the design of the app so as to make that more attractive to do and in the best case, irresistible to do. The attention economy constantly ratchets up these persuasive tricks.
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