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Making Sense of Social Media and the Information Landscape | Episode 8 of The Essential Sam Harris

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Social Media: The Battle Between Our Brain and Supercomputers

There is a greater degree of asymmetry between traditional media and social media in regards to user attention/nThe supercomputing infrastructure of platforms like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok are used to keep users engaged/nPredictive analytics are used to determine perfect next videos or posts to keep users on the platform

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