#365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Malicious Use of Video Clips in Today's Attention-Fragmented Environment
In today's attention-fragmented environment, malicious actors are creating video clips with the intention of engineering reputational damage. The easy sharing and quick reactions on platforms like Twitter lead to a total failure of ethics due to the lack of time and effort put into understanding the context of the clips. This results in people reacting to and commenting on clips without actually knowing the speaker's true thoughts on the issues. Furthermore, the irony lies in the fact that misleading clips from this conversation will also be shared and criticized, perpetuating the dysfunctional reliance on and judgment based on these clips.
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