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Andrew Yang Podcast

How Facebook opened Pandora’s box - Tristan Harris

Andrew Yang Podcast

Andrew Yang & Audacy

Society & Culture

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Andrew and Zach break down the VP debate. Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, talks about Silicon Valley's race to capture your attention, unintended consequences in technology, and how we can curb the worst tendencies of social media companies.

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7Ol3RSIykPc

Tristan Harris - https://twitter.com/tristanharris | https://instagram.com/tristanharris

Andrew Yang - https://instagram.com/andrewyang | https://twitter.com/AndrewYang

Zach Graumann - https://instagram.com/zachgraumann | https://twitter.com/Zach_Graumann

Transcript

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0:00.0

We live in a time spent economy.

0:01.8

Things are competing for your time.

0:03.8

And we obviously, you can always get more money,

0:06.2

but you can't get more time.

0:07.3

So time is the finite resource that we all share.

0:10.0

And it's the ultimate, neutral, flat leveling playing field

0:15.3

that we all have to operate on.

0:17.4

And if you have companies competing for that,

0:19.4

you're going to end up with these problems.

0:20.7

We're the resource that is being stripped mind

0:22.9

into our cognition.

0:25.2

And that means that we're worth more

0:27.5

if we're addicted, distracted, outraged, narcissistic,

0:31.9

attention seeking, polarized, and disinformed,

0:35.6

then if we're a thriving citizen or a healthy, growing child

0:38.7

who's living their lives in the way that we want.

0:41.4

And I think this speaks to some of your work, Andrew,

0:43.0

because it's about dignity.

0:44.3

It's about, are we the product where we're just

0:46.7

to cog in the economy?

0:48.2

Or do we fundamentally have dignity?

0:50.3

And can we have a system that treats each of us

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