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061 - Praying to the Algorithm (with Derek Muller from Veritasium)

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🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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So you and I both make YouTube videos and I don't want to feel too self-important by

0:12.8

talking about the YouTube thing, but I think there are huge implications for the future

0:18.2

of society based on these algorithmic changes.

0:22.2

Would you agree with that?

0:23.7

I absolutely agree.

0:26.6

I don't think that's an understatement at all.

0:28.6

We have seen seismic shifts in the history of culture and thought based on a new mechanism

0:35.2

coming into play or a new use for that mechanism.

0:37.8

So no, I don't think it's self-important to talk about the medium because I think the

0:41.6

medium is really affecting things.

0:43.4

Yeah.

0:44.4

And when you said that, were you thinking about the printing press?

0:46.6

Well, yeah.

0:47.6

That's one of many.

0:48.6

Sure.

0:49.6

Okay.

0:50.6

I could go clear down the rabbit hole with you on how that changed things.

0:53.4

And more subtle ways than you usually talk about, but I think you get it.

0:56.8

Yeah.

0:57.8

But YouTube is different.

0:58.8

I think YouTube is very different because when YouTube itself came to the scene, you had

1:05.5

or social media in general, really, you had this way that you could communicate with people.

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