Ezra Klein

Now the companies are now going for our attachments with chatbots.

It's going to be easier to manipulate.

Definitely.

It's going to be angrier.

It's going to be angrier.

I mean, it's a space of freedom and you give up the space of freedom and you're thinking other people's thoughts and you're much more vulnerable to manipulation.

And if you really nurture your own mind and your own sense of consciousness, you're much less likely to fall for lies.

You're much more likely to think independently.

How do you think independently when you're scrolling?

You don't.

You react, but you're not setting the agenda.

You're letting an algorithm set the agenda.

But it is the nature of capitalism to intrude on more and more of our lives, more and more of our time.

There was an interview with the president of Netflix who was explaining in regard to competition over an acquisition or something like, we're not competing with other streaming services.

We're competing with your dream time.

It was one of the more dystopic things I've heard a CEO say.

I know, it really is.

And you know, they are competing with our...

the part of our consciousness that wants to think its own thoughts, because there's more money to be made if we think their thoughts.

Yeah.