How do the algorithms that we're surrounded with shape our lives?

Why does a journalist begin to write differently once metrics are introduced?

What is algorithmic capture?

Has clickbait always existed?

What did that look like before the internet? How could even

vegan content creators go in for rage bait? What does any of this have to do with why someone

would insist on cooking pasta in the bathtub or the 19th century actress Sarah Bernhardt or

one weird trick or or Oxford English Dictionary's

Word of the Year. Join me today with sociologist Angel Christen as we talk about how algorithms

invisibly sculpt human behavior.

Welcome to Inner Cosmos with me, David Eagleman.

I'm a neuroscientist and an author at Stanford,

and in these episodes, we sail deeply into our three-pound universe

to understand why and how our lives look the way they do.

Music the way they do. Every brain is trying to navigate itself through a very social world, and it's always unconsciously making predictions to figure things out.

Like, what should I pay attention to?

Or what is worth my time?

What should I care about?

And for essentially, the entirety of human history, those signals came from other humans.

You read a lot of information from the expressions on their faces, like a raised eyebrow.

You hear things in the tone of people's voices.

You modify your behavior if you are getting signals of approval or disapproval, not just from your parents,

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