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Chris Hayes

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
918 total appearances

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Radio Atlantic
The War for Your Attention

Because people do want to like read long things from people that they think are interesting and not just algorithmic serving of short form video. That's a different model. It's a for profit model, but it's a different model and I think a better one and one that's less extractive and alienating for our attention. You know, vinyl records were completely supplanted by cassette tapes and then CDs.

Radio Atlantic
The War for Your Attention

Because people do want to like read long things from people that they think are interesting and not just algorithmic serving of short form video. That's a different model. It's a for profit model, but it's a different model and I think a better one and one that's less extractive and alienating for our attention. You know, vinyl records were completely supplanted by cassette tapes and then CDs.

Radio Atlantic
The War for Your Attention

And then starting about 10 years ago, they started growing and they've been growing every year and they've been growing at huge paces. And there's now a thriving vinyl industry. And the reason is that I think when you are streaming music, you have the twitchy short form attention extraction of music. go to the next song or maybe I want something else. When you put on a record, you commit, right?

Radio Atlantic
The War for Your Attention

And then starting about 10 years ago, they started growing and they've been growing every year and they've been growing at huge paces. And there's now a thriving vinyl industry. And the reason is that I think when you are streaming music, you have the twitchy short form attention extraction of music. go to the next song or maybe I want something else. When you put on a record, you commit, right?

Radio Atlantic
The War for Your Attention

And then starting about 10 years ago, they started growing and they've been growing every year and they've been growing at huge paces. And there's now a thriving vinyl industry. And the reason is that I think when you are streaming music, you have the twitchy short form attention extraction of music. go to the next song or maybe I want something else. When you put on a record, you commit, right?

Radio Atlantic
The War for Your Attention

The commitment mechanism is the triumph of the volitional will over the involuntary attention compulsion, right? It's like Odysseus lashing himself to the mast, right? We make a commitment. I'm going to read this email from this sub stacker I subscribe to. I'm going to listen to this album, which I've put on vinyl. These commitment methods, and again, they can be in for-profit contexts, right?

Radio Atlantic
The War for Your Attention

The commitment mechanism is the triumph of the volitional will over the involuntary attention compulsion, right? It's like Odysseus lashing himself to the mast, right? We make a commitment. I'm going to read this email from this sub stacker I subscribe to. I'm going to listen to this album, which I've put on vinyl. These commitment methods, and again, they can be in for-profit contexts, right?

Radio Atlantic
The War for Your Attention

The commitment mechanism is the triumph of the volitional will over the involuntary attention compulsion, right? It's like Odysseus lashing himself to the mast, right? We make a commitment. I'm going to read this email from this sub stacker I subscribe to. I'm going to listen to this album, which I've put on vinyl. These commitment methods, and again, they can be in for-profit contexts, right?

Radio Atlantic
The War for Your Attention

I think we are going to see flourishing and more energy behind that. And the other example I use, because I talked about hunger before, is to think about what's happened with how opposition to the sort of corporate industrial food system the U.S. has worked. So you've had the entire thriving ecosystem and set of businesses built up in opposition to

Radio Atlantic
The War for Your Attention

I think we are going to see flourishing and more energy behind that. And the other example I use, because I talked about hunger before, is to think about what's happened with how opposition to the sort of corporate industrial food system the U.S. has worked. So you've had the entire thriving ecosystem and set of businesses built up in opposition to

Radio Atlantic
The War for Your Attention

I think we are going to see flourishing and more energy behind that. And the other example I use, because I talked about hunger before, is to think about what's happened with how opposition to the sort of corporate industrial food system the U.S. has worked. So you've had the entire thriving ecosystem and set of businesses built up in opposition to

Radio Atlantic
The War for Your Attention

to precisely the forms of extractive and exploitative food capitalism that I think is parallel to attention capitalism. And I think we are going to see that. There are people that market dumb phones now, and I think there's going to be a lot more of them.

Radio Atlantic
The War for Your Attention

to precisely the forms of extractive and exploitative food capitalism that I think is parallel to attention capitalism. And I think we are going to see that. There are people that market dumb phones now, and I think there's going to be a lot more of them.

Radio Atlantic
The War for Your Attention

to precisely the forms of extractive and exploitative food capitalism that I think is parallel to attention capitalism. And I think we are going to see that. There are people that market dumb phones now, and I think there's going to be a lot more of them.

Radio Atlantic
The War for Your Attention

I can imagine a world in which in the same way that like a certain kind of parent doesn't feed their kids, you know, fast food, you start to see that more and more. The people kind of just opt out of this entire system to the extent they can.

Radio Atlantic
The War for Your Attention

I can imagine a world in which in the same way that like a certain kind of parent doesn't feed their kids, you know, fast food, you start to see that more and more. The people kind of just opt out of this entire system to the extent they can.

Radio Atlantic
The War for Your Attention

I can imagine a world in which in the same way that like a certain kind of parent doesn't feed their kids, you know, fast food, you start to see that more and more. The people kind of just opt out of this entire system to the extent they can.

Radio Atlantic
The War for Your Attention

Yeah, I do. I do. I think that there's something pretty dark and insidious about how the major platforms particularly are engineering this kind of attention compulsion. And I think we are going to enter an era in which we start regulating attention. Seriously. You're seeing this call, you know, in Australia, they've already banned social media for children under 16.

Radio Atlantic
The War for Your Attention

Yeah, I do. I do. I think that there's something pretty dark and insidious about how the major platforms particularly are engineering this kind of attention compulsion. And I think we are going to enter an era in which we start regulating attention. Seriously. You're seeing this call, you know, in Australia, they've already banned social media for children under 16.

Radio Atlantic
The War for Your Attention

Yeah, I do. I do. I think that there's something pretty dark and insidious about how the major platforms particularly are engineering this kind of attention compulsion. And I think we are going to enter an era in which we start regulating attention. Seriously. You're seeing this call, you know, in Australia, they've already banned social media for children under 16.