John Gafford
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There's a lot of โ there's more power in that statement than saying something dumb that you're regurgitating that you heard online.
But I think that's getting harder and harder because with the algorithms through social media and Twitter, they have one job, keep you on the platform.
That's it.
So they've placed you in this echo chamber of just the same repetitive voice coming through you.
And you're
most people don't take the time to say, hey, what does the other side maybe of this coin look like?
What does the other side of this issue look like?
And I have found, I mean, that's the majority of the American population now is incredibly polarized because of this.
So from a behavioral science standpoint, two-point question, number one, how important is it that we break that cycle?
And two, how do we break that cycle?
What I was going to say is my default mechanism for that is literally just to say that any time that I am triggered emotionally by something that is not living and breathing in front of me, there's an excellent chance I'm being manipulated somehow.
Oh, I'd say 98% of the population is a little closer.
No, but how many people, I mean, I know, I mean.
Yeah.
People that I know that I'm friends with that are so โ get so angry over things that are being โ like this is just being fed to you.
Like you have a choice of what you can do.
And it's so funny because we're โ I was talking about this the other day.
We're entering this age of โ
of advanced health enlightenment i feel like i think you know alcohol consumption is down people are eating better um i you know now peptides are the rage you know we're all trying to live forever those if you're north of 50 you're like i just got to make it 15 years and ai is going to keep me alive for the
Whatever it is, I just got to make it like 15 more years, then AI is going to keep me alive.