Alex Wagner

Now, any teenager with a phone can experience this. Everyone can. And in fact, you see it like Elon Musk and a lot of people get driven insane by this in real time as you watch.

Now, any teenager with a phone can experience this. Everyone can. And in fact, you see it like Elon Musk and a lot of people get driven insane by this in real time as you watch.

Lasted about half a day. So I think that's... You're mucking with the stuff in us that's pretty deep about who we are and how we view ourselves. And you're putting it in the hands of... corporations that are engineered to try to do this at scale. And I think the closest analog we have is basically, and I write about this at some point in the book, the industrial food system, right?

Lasted about half a day. So I think that's... You're mucking with the stuff in us that's pretty deep about who we are and how we view ourselves. And you're putting it in the hands of... corporations that are engineered to try to do this at scale. And I think the closest analog we have is basically, and I write about this at some point in the book, the industrial food system, right?

Lasted about half a day. So I think that's... You're mucking with the stuff in us that's pretty deep about who we are and how we view ourselves. And you're putting it in the hands of... corporations that are engineered to try to do this at scale. And I think the closest analog we have is basically, and I write about this at some point in the book, the industrial food system, right?

Like we have biological inheritances where we like sweet things and we like fat and we like salt. And if you're going to try to sell food to a billion people or 2 billion people, you get Coca-Cola and you get McDonald's, right? And so our relationship to food is this same kind of weird war between like the self that's like, I want to eat healthier.

Like we have biological inheritances where we like sweet things and we like fat and we like salt. And if you're going to try to sell food to a billion people or 2 billion people, you get Coca-Cola and you get McDonald's, right? And so our relationship to food is this same kind of weird war between like the self that's like, I want to eat healthier.

Like we have biological inheritances where we like sweet things and we like fat and we like salt. And if you're going to try to sell food to a billion people or 2 billion people, you get Coca-Cola and you get McDonald's, right? And so our relationship to food is this same kind of weird war between like the self that's like, I want to eat healthier.

I want this and the kind of desiring biology beneath that dynamic has now been replicated inside our minds in the attention age where the sort of very parallel set of things are happening constantly moment to moment determining where we come to rest our thoughts.

I want this and the kind of desiring biology beneath that dynamic has now been replicated inside our minds in the attention age where the sort of very parallel set of things are happening constantly moment to moment determining where we come to rest our thoughts.

I want this and the kind of desiring biology beneath that dynamic has now been replicated inside our minds in the attention age where the sort of very parallel set of things are happening constantly moment to moment determining where we come to rest our thoughts.

Not once. Not once. I love carpet cleaning videos. They're so soothing.

Not once. Not once. I love carpet cleaning videos. They're so soothing.

Not once. Not once. I love carpet cleaning videos. They're so soothing.

Yeah, like in bed or sitting on the couch. So the point about if you watch piglets nurse, it's really wild. The mom just lays there and then they just like fight each other in the most like ferocious way. And you actually get to see like what it means to be a runt, which is that you don't get to nurse and then you like waste away and die basically. But like the difference between how humans like.

Yeah, like in bed or sitting on the couch. So the point about if you watch piglets nurse, it's really wild. The mom just lays there and then they just like fight each other in the most like ferocious way. And you actually get to see like what it means to be a runt, which is that you don't get to nurse and then you like waste away and die basically. But like the difference between how humans like.

Yeah, like in bed or sitting on the couch. So the point about if you watch piglets nurse, it's really wild. The mom just lays there and then they just like fight each other in the most like ferocious way. And you actually get to see like what it means to be a runt, which is that you don't get to nurse and then you like waste away and die basically. But like the difference between how humans like.

deal with this part of life and how the mammal world deals with it is pretty wild.

deal with this part of life and how the mammal world deals with it is pretty wild.

deal with this part of life and how the mammal world deals with it is pretty wild.