Jeff Krasno

Yeah, I mean, I'm generally an optimistic human being, so I'm trying to leverage that part of me. I'm worried more about, I think, general epistemology and sort of the erosion of reason and rationality and the ability to have kind of nuanced, thoughtful conversations. We live in this attention or persuasion economy, I guess you might call it, where essentially we've taken Drew's time and focus.

Yeah, I mean, I'm generally an optimistic human being, so I'm trying to leverage that part of me. I'm worried more about, I think, general epistemology and sort of the erosion of reason and rationality and the ability to have kind of nuanced, thoughtful conversations. We live in this attention or persuasion economy, I guess you might call it, where essentially we've taken Drew's time and focus.

I mean, everybody's time and focus and we've productized it and commodified it and we buy it and sell it. And for better or worse, you know, we all exist on social media or we, we all consume a lot of 24 hour news, whether many of us try to avoid it, but that is essentially algorithmically preferenced for salaciousness and scandal and hyperbole, et cetera.

I mean, everybody's time and focus and we've productized it and commodified it and we buy it and sell it. And for better or worse, you know, we all exist on social media or we, we all consume a lot of 24 hour news, whether many of us try to avoid it, but that is essentially algorithmically preferenced for salaciousness and scandal and hyperbole, et cetera.

I mean, everybody's time and focus and we've productized it and commodified it and we buy it and sell it. And for better or worse, you know, we all exist on social media or we, we all consume a lot of 24 hour news, whether many of us try to avoid it, but that is essentially algorithmically preferenced for salaciousness and scandal and hyperbole, et cetera.

And so we have these agitated nervous systems as part of this bigger kind of non-consensual system. psychological experiment of this attention economy. And that really does worry me because it tends to amplify the least rigorous voices and the voices that tend to not really value nuance or common ground or really any effort at sort of finding the middle.

And so we have these agitated nervous systems as part of this bigger kind of non-consensual system. psychological experiment of this attention economy. And that really does worry me because it tends to amplify the least rigorous voices and the voices that tend to not really value nuance or common ground or really any effort at sort of finding the middle.

And so we have these agitated nervous systems as part of this bigger kind of non-consensual system. psychological experiment of this attention economy. And that really does worry me because it tends to amplify the least rigorous voices and the voices that tend to not really value nuance or common ground or really any effort at sort of finding the middle.

So that is a concern of mine, because I think what we've seen is erosion and just basic epistemology. Certainly, we've seen a lot of erosion in trust of the institutions of liberal democracy that have long kept us semi-stable. And in many cases, those institutions have done a lot of insult and embarrassment to themselves.

So that is a concern of mine, because I think what we've seen is erosion and just basic epistemology. Certainly, we've seen a lot of erosion in trust of the institutions of liberal democracy that have long kept us semi-stable. And in many cases, those institutions have done a lot of insult and embarrassment to themselves.

So that is a concern of mine, because I think what we've seen is erosion and just basic epistemology. Certainly, we've seen a lot of erosion in trust of the institutions of liberal democracy that have long kept us semi-stable. And in many cases, those institutions have done a lot of insult and embarrassment to themselves.

I mean, I'm talking about, you know, media, government, institutions of higher learning, certainly food system, pharma, et cetera, you know, A lot of these institutions have really done a lot to undermine public trust in them.

I mean, I'm talking about, you know, media, government, institutions of higher learning, certainly food system, pharma, et cetera, you know, A lot of these institutions have really done a lot to undermine public trust in them.

I mean, I'm talking about, you know, media, government, institutions of higher learning, certainly food system, pharma, et cetera, you know, A lot of these institutions have really done a lot to undermine public trust in them.

And yet at the same time, there is so many sort of misaligned incentives or perverse incentives to continue to sort of burn down these institutions instead of actually making them better. And this does concern me because I don't really know what's on the other side of liberal democracy.

And yet at the same time, there is so many sort of misaligned incentives or perverse incentives to continue to sort of burn down these institutions instead of actually making them better. And this does concern me because I don't really know what's on the other side of liberal democracy.

And yet at the same time, there is so many sort of misaligned incentives or perverse incentives to continue to sort of burn down these institutions instead of actually making them better. And this does concern me because I don't really know what's on the other side of liberal democracy.

You know, I don't hear a lot of really thoughtful, cogent alternatives to it, you know, outside of, you know, tyranny and despotism and kleptocracy, et cetera, which I feel we're sort of like on the quasi verge of at this very moment. So Yeah. That's a complicated answer.

You know, I don't hear a lot of really thoughtful, cogent alternatives to it, you know, outside of, you know, tyranny and despotism and kleptocracy, et cetera, which I feel we're sort of like on the quasi verge of at this very moment. So Yeah. That's a complicated answer.

You know, I don't hear a lot of really thoughtful, cogent alternatives to it, you know, outside of, you know, tyranny and despotism and kleptocracy, et cetera, which I feel we're sort of like on the quasi verge of at this very moment. So Yeah. That's a complicated answer.