Making Sense of Social Media and the Information Landscape | Episode 8 of The Essential Sam Harris
5 May 2023 - 44 minsIn this episode, we examine a series of Sam’s conversations centered around social media’s impact on the information landscape.
We begin with Sam’s second conversation with Tristan Harris, which was conducted shortly after the release of Tristan’s documentary, The Social Dilemma. The documentary lays out Tristan’s thesis on how social media is causing the deterioration of both individual and societal welfare. Author and technologist Jaron Lanier follows, echoing Tristan’s concerns and shifting the conversation to social media’s unique business model, addressing how perverse incentives reliably produce such detrimental outcomes.
We then hear from Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter. Sa...
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