Hank Green

We're like fine saying, as long as you're doing everything with the sole goal of making the most amount of money possible, that's fine.

But the moment you're saying like, I don't like to post, like, I'd like to promote stuff that's about like pro-social behavior and not anti-social behavior.

It's like, well, you got your finger on this scale, buddy.

Now you're trying to be God.

And it's like, no, they are God.

We did it.

We live in the AI age.

We are all controlled by AI all of the time already.

It's been that way for 10 years.

This is it.

Your brain has been taken over by recommendation algorithms that decide what you see and what you see and what you pay attention to is what just like builds your view of the world.

It builds your values.

It builds what you think about everything.

And we've plugged our brains into a system that is all about attention and holding on to attention.

So that's the number one thing I'll say.

Everything is about attention.

Everything is about salience.

Everything is about how easy it is to get somebody to pay attention to something.

So that's the actual leverage point.

Everything else is just arguing in the most salient way possible.