Who owns your data? Jaron Lanier has the answer.
Andrew Yang Podcast
Andrew Yang & Audacy
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Computer scientist and philosopher Jaron Lanier joins Yang Speaks and tells us why negative ideas spread faster than positive ideas, how Netflix and Facebook share and use your data, and why data dignity is fundamental to our future.
Jaron Lanier - http://www.jaronlanier.com/
Andrew Yang - https://movehumanityforward.com | https://twitter.com/AndrewYang
Zach Graumann - https://twitter.com/Zach_Graumann
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| 0:00.0 | There have to be things like unions where people can collectively bargain for the value of their data |
| 0:05.2 | This is essential because if it's each person against each other person then the price will collapse on the internet |
| 0:11.8 | There's nobody who's on your side and there there needs to be so they can serve that function. They can become the first advocates |
| 0:18.6 | If nothing changes |
| 0:20.7 | Then things just continue to get commoditized and we get |
| 0:24.7 | Pactitized and commoditized the idea of data dignity to me is profound |
| 0:30.0 | Because I think it's fundamental to what the future can look like |
| 0:46.0 | It is my pleasure to welcome to Yang speaks the visionary technologist futurist philosopher musician |
| 0:54.4 | Jaron linear jaren welcome. Hey, thanks for having me |
| 0:58.8 | So jaren you should know I quote you on the trail or I quoted you when I was running for president |
| 1:04.5 | All the time some of your ideas I think are so |
| 1:08.8 | important for |
| 1:10.8 | Not just the future, but what we're facing right now |
| 1:14.0 | So the idea I quoted most often was you've written and spoken on the fact that negative ideas and sentiment |
| 1:23.2 | spread more powerfully and |
| 1:26.2 | viscerally |
| 1:27.5 | Online through social media than positive sentiments and that has very very profound implication |
| 1:33.5 | Yeah, unfortunately |
| 1:36.4 | At least my understanding of it is that we're dealing with some very old and kind of nasty |
| 1:43.8 | evolutionary |
| 1:44.9 | legacies because in the human |
| 1:48.0 | cognitive system we have these super rapid fire systems that we usually call the fight or flight responses |
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