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Four Days in the Dark

The Myths That Make Us

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The Competitive Game of Social Media

Social media is a competitive game and each of us are competing, not against each other, but rather against AI. In 1996, the greatest chess player in the world, Gary Kasparov, lost to IBM's DBLUE computer. And most of us don't know that we're playing a game when we log in. We don't know the rules of the game and we are not grandmasters. It's so hard to appreciate just how massively and insidiously our social media platforms distract us,. warp our perception, and cheapen our dopamine reward systems.

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