Netflix's 'Social Dilemma' Star Tristan Harris on the Film and Its Criticisms

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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You won’t find a more controversial film in Silicon Valley than The Social Dilemma. The film, now available on Netflix, features confessions from early consumer internet employees who rue the destruction their inventions have wrought. To address the film and its critiques, Tristan Harris, its star and the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, sat down for an interview on the Big Technology Podcast with no questions off limits.

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0:19.8	How are you? I'm all right.
0:21.3	How are you doing?
0:22.6	I'm good.
0:23.2	I appreciate you doing this.
0:24.6	I feel like I'll probably lose some credibility
0:27.0	because there were parts of the movie
0:28.3	that I really liked.
0:30.0	And it seems like, at least in the tech circles,
0:33.1	it's gotten a little bit of pushback.
0:34.6	But I'm excited to be able to talk about it with you.
0:37.1	Yeah, absolutely.
0:39.0	And yeah, we'll talk about, I'm sure, any of the aspects, feel free to be critical.
0:44.8	This is not meant to be, you know, one-sided propaganda.
0:48.3	It's meant to be an honest assessment of what is the situation.
0:52.9	So, yeah.
0:54.0	Totally. Okay, well, we'll get into it. Let me just roll the music. So yeah. Totally.
0:54.6	Okay, well, we'll get into it.
0:55.6	Let me just roll the music and we can get started.
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