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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Ten arguments that AI is an existential risk, published by KatjaGrace on August 13, 2024 on LessWrong. This is a snapshot of a new page on the AI Impacts Wiki. We've made a list of arguments[1] that AI poses an existential risk to humanity. We'd love to hear how you feel about them in the comments and polls. Competent non-aligned agents Summary: 1. Humans will build AI systems that are 'agents', i.e. they will autonomously pursue goals 2. Humans won't figure out how to make systems with goals that are compatible with human welfare and realizing human values 3. Such systems will be built or selected to be highly competent, and so gain the power to achieve their goals 4. Thus the future will be primarily controlled by AIs, who will direct it in ways that are at odds with long-run human welfare or the realization of human values Selected counterarguments: It is unclear that AI will tend to have goals that are bad for humans There are many forms of power. It is unclear that a competence advantage will ultimately trump all others in time This argument also appears to apply to human groups such as corporations, so we need an explanation of why those are not an existential risk People who have favorably discussed[2] this argument (specific quotes here): Paul Christiano (2021), Ajeya Cotra (2023), Eliezer Yudkowsky (2024), Nick Bostrom (2014[3]). See also: Full wiki page on the competent non-aligned agents argument Second species argument Summary: 1. Human dominance over other animal species is primarily due to humans having superior cognitive and coordination abilities 2. Therefore if another 'species' appears with abilities superior to those of humans, that species will become dominant over humans in the same way 3. AI will essentially be a 'species' with superior abilities to humans 4. Therefore AI will dominate humans Selected counterarguments: Human dominance over other species is plausibly not due to the cognitive abilities of individual humans, but rather because of human ability to communicate and store information through culture and artifacts Intelligence in animals doesn't appear to generally relate to dominance. For instance, elephants are much more intelligent than beetles, and it is not clear that elephants have dominated beetles Differences in capabilities don't necessarily lead to extinction. In the modern world, more powerful countries arguably control less powerful countries, but they do not wipe them out and most colonized countries have eventually gained independence People who have favorably discussed this argument (specific quotes here): Joe Carlsmith (2024), Richard Ngo (2020), Stuart Russell (2020[4]), Nick Bostrom (2015). See also: Full wiki page on the second species argument Loss of control via inferiority Summary: 1. AI systems will become much more competent than humans at decision-making 2. Thus most decisions will probably be allocated to AI systems 3. If AI systems make most decisions, humans will lose control of the future 4. If humans have no control of the future, the future will probably be bad for humans Selected counterarguments: Humans do not generally seem to become disempowered by possession of software that is far superior to them, even if it makes many 'decisions' in the process of carrying out their will In the same way that humans avoid being overpowered by companies, even though companies are more competent than individual humans, humans can track AI trustworthiness and have AI systems compete for them as users. This might substantially mitigate untrustworthy AI behavior People who have favorably discussed this argument (specific quotes here): Paul Christiano (2014), Ajeya Cotra (2023), Richard Ngo (2024). See also: Full wiki page on loss of control via inferiority Loss of control via speed Summary: 1. Advances in AI will produce...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Ten arguments that AI is an existential risk, published by KatjaGrace on August 13, 2024 on LessWrong. This is a snapshot of a new page on the AI Impacts Wiki. We've made a list of arguments[1] that AI poses an existential risk to humanity. We'd love to hear how you feel about them in the comments and polls. Competent non-aligned agents Summary: 1. Humans will build AI systems that are 'agents', i.e. they will autonomously pursue goals 2. Humans won't figure out how to make systems with goals that are compatible with human welfare and realizing human values 3. Such systems will be built or selected to be highly competent, and so gain the power to achieve their goals 4. Thus the future will be primarily controlled by AIs, who will direct it in ways that are at odds with long-run human welfare or the realization of human values Selected counterarguments: It is unclear that AI will tend to have goals that are bad for humans There are many forms of power. It is unclear that a competence advantage will ultimately trump all others in time This argument also appears to apply to human groups such as corporations, so we need an explanation of why those are not an existential risk People who have favorably discussed[2] this argument (specific quotes here): Paul Christiano (2021), Ajeya Cotra (2023), Eliezer Yudkowsky (2024), Nick Bostrom (2014[3]). See also: Full wiki page on the competent non-aligned agents argument Second species argument Summary: 1. Human dominance over other animal species is primarily due to humans having superior cognitive and coordination abilities 2. Therefore if another 'species' appears with abilities superior to those of humans, that species will become dominant over humans in the same way 3. AI will essentially be a 'species' with superior abilities to humans 4. Therefore AI will dominate humans Selected counterarguments: Human dominance over other species is plausibly not due to the cognitive abilities of individual humans, but rather because of human ability to communicate and store information through culture and artifacts Intelligence in animals doesn't appear to generally relate to dominance. For instance, elephants are much more intelligent than beetles, and it is not clear that elephants have dominated beetles Differences in capabilities don't necessarily lead to extinction. In the modern world, more powerful countries arguably control less powerful countries, but they do not wipe them out and most colonized countries have eventually gained independence People who have favorably discussed this argument (specific quotes here): Joe Carlsmith (2024), Richard Ngo (2020), Stuart Russell (2020[4]), Nick Bostrom (2015). See also: Full wiki page on the second species argument Loss of control via inferiority Summary: 1. AI systems will become much more competent than humans at decision-making 2. Thus most decisions will probably be allocated to AI systems 3. If AI systems make most decisions, humans will lose control of the future 4. If humans have no control of the future, the future will probably be bad for humans Selected counterarguments: Humans do not generally seem to become disempowered by possession of software that is far superior to them, even if it makes many 'decisions' in the process of carrying out their will In the same way that humans avoid being overpowered by companies, even though companies are more competent than individual humans, humans can track AI trustworthiness and have AI systems compete for them as users. This might substantially mitigate untrustworthy AI behavior People who have favorably discussed this argument (specific quotes here): Paul Christiano (2014), Ajeya Cotra (2023), Richard Ngo (2024). See also: Full wiki page on loss of control via inferiority Loss of control via speed Summary: 1. Advances in AI will produce...

This week we're talking phone habits and setting boundaries with our devices with Leslie Stephens, creator of the popular newsletter Morning Person and author of You're Safe Here, out June 25, 2024.    Books Leslie recommends about setting phone boundaries Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier How to Break Up with Your Phone Catherine Price Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle Stolen Focus by Johann Hari   If you liked this ep, you may also like the Search Engine Podcast episode Is there a sane way to use the internet?   Obsessions Becca - Such a Bad Influence by Olivia Muenter Olivia - Chappel Roan performing Casual at Coachella    What we read this week Olivia - Annie Bot by Sierra Greer Becca - Stolen Focus by Johann Hari   This Month's Book Club Pick - The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com)   Sponsors Magical Overthinkers - tune into Magical Overthinkers wherever you get your podcasts. Such a Bad Influence - pre-order Olivia's book Such a Bad Influence, out June 4! AND see her on her book tour! Find dates and details below.   Olivia's Such A Bad Influence Book Tour! June 6, 6:00 PM - Main Point Books, Wayne PA In conversation with Kirsten and Jackie of @BeyondTheBookends June 9, 1:00 - 3:00 PM - Rough Draft, Kingston NY Signing & Meet/Greet June 11, 7:00 PM - Tombolo Books, St. Petersburg FL. In conversation with Ayana Lage June 12, 7:00 PM - Itinerant Literate at Madra Rua Irish Pub, Charleston SC. In conversation with Grace Atwood June 13, 6:30 PM - Elm Street Books at Rosie Cafe in New Canaan CT w/ Carola Lovering June 26, 12:00 PM - Bryant Park Reading Room, New York NY June 27, 6:00 PM - Liquid Fables Book Club, Beacon NY July 28, 3:00 PM - 518 Craft Book Club, 518 Craft in Troy, NY  August 17 - Avalon Library, Avalon NJ with Colleen McKeegan   Join our Facebook group for amazing book recs & more!  Buy our Merch! Join our Geneva! Pre-order Olivia's Book, Such a Bad Influence! Subscribe to Olivia's Newsletter! Order Becca's Book, The Christmas Orphans Club! Subscribe to Becca's Newsletter!  Follow us on Instagram @badonpaperpodcast. Follow Olivia on Instagram @oliviamuenter and Becca @beccamfreeman.  

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The seventh session of the Well-Being Beyond Measure series focuses on the implications of social media and technology. Whitney explores the effects of social media burnout, mental health impacts, addiction to the constant infusion of content, 'Influencer Creep', and the subconscious challenge of always striving to do more. Drawing from published articles and studies, she emphasizes the strategic psychological designs of these platforms and their potential to incite polarity and unrest. The importance of understanding the platforms, setting solid boundaries, and diligent introspection of one's behavior while using social media is advised. Whitney advocates for personal authenticity and selective attention to elements that bring individual joy and meaning, prolonging wellbeing beyond numerical measures or social media validations.Resources mentioned:Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now: https://amzn.to/4336fs4 Your Guide to Creating a Healthier Relationship with Social Media: https://www.healthline.com/health/social-media-and-mental-health?cmid=23304fe5-b3ae-4884-931a-0902fa32188d The social media diet: A scoping review to investigate the association between social media, body image and eating disorders amongst young people: https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0001091 Social media polarized America by making a big mistake: It introduced us to each other: https://www.businessinsider.com/social-media-twitter-facebook-political-polarization-mechanism-2022-10 Influencer Creep: https://reallifemag.com/influencer-creep/04:23 The Magic and Loss of Digital World05:15 Whitney's Personal Journey with Social Media07:00 Understanding the Mechanism of Social Media09:08 The Dark Side09:47 The Influence on Body Image11:14 Social Media Addiction15:50 The Polarizing Effect of Social Media17:38 The Impact on Career and Self-Esteem19:52 The Decision to Step Away 30:59 The Power of Selective Attention

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Could the negative effects of social media be more damaging than we ever imagined, and what if we told you that our attitudes towards social media could be compared to past perceptions of smoking? This episode, we dive into the surprisingly prescient world of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, drawing parallels between the addiction and entertainment themes in the book and today's social media trends. We also reflect on the postmodern, media-saturated society we live in, and how disinformation and false narratives are shaping our realities.Social media has created a pressure to upgrade phones and an addictive environment that makes people willing to pay to stop using it. We'll provide you with an in-depth analysis of these negative impacts. It's not just about social media, though. We also talk about fitness and insecurities, examining the dangers of external validation and misleading fitness advertising. But don't worry, it's not all doom and gloom. We'll offer potential solutions, discussing dopamine fasting and how to change unhealthy behaviors.Finally, we delve into the impact of social media on mental health and public discourse, utilizing Jaron Lanier's book "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now". We'll discuss the manipulative behavior and mental health deterioration that can come with social media use. And there's more - we also examine the rise of unstable surface training in workouts. Throughout the episode, we provide practical tips on how to navigate the digital world, ensuring you're informed and equipped to handle these realities. This is a critical conversation that intersects media, fitness, and mental health, and we hope you'll join us.Producer: Thor BenanderEditor: Luke MoreyIntro Theme: Ajax BenanderIntro: Timothy DurantFor more, visit Simon at The Antagonist

Sad news for all of us: producer Rachael Cusick— who brought us soul-stirring stories rethinking grief (https://zpr.io/GZ6xEvpzsbHU) and solitude (https://zpr.io/eT5tAX6JtYra), as well as colorful musings on airplane farts (https://zpr.io/CNpgUijZiuZ4) and belly flops (https://zpr.io/uZrEz27z63CB) and Blueberry Earths (https://zpr.io/EzxgtdTRGVzz)— is leaving the show. So we thought it perfect timing to sit down with her and revisit another brainchild of hers, The Cataclysm Sentence, a collection of advice for The End. To explain: one day in 1961, the famous physicist Richard Feynman stepped in front of a Caltech lecture hall and posed this question to a group of undergraduate students: “If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence was passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words?” Now, Feynman had an answer to his own question—a good one. But his question got the entire team at Radiolab wondering, what did his sentence leave out? So we posed Feynman's cataclysm question to some of our favorite writers, artists, historians, futurists—all kinds of great thinkers. We asked them “What's the one sentence you would want to pass on to the next generation that would contain the most information in the fewest words?” What came back was an explosive collage of what it means to be alive right here and now, and what we want to say before we go. Featuring: Richard Feynman, physicist - The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (https://zpr.io/5KngTGibPVDw) Caitlin Doughty, mortician - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs (https://zpr.io/Wn4bQgHzDRDB) Esperanza Spalding, musician - 12 Little Spells (https://zpr.io/KMjYrkwrz9dy)  Cord Jefferson, writer - Watchmen (https://zpr.io/ruqKDQGy5Rv8)  Merrill Garbus, musician - I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life (https://zpr.io/HmrqFX8RKuFq) Jenny Odell, writer - How to do Nothing (https://zpr.io/JrUHu8dviFqc) Maria Popova, writer - Brainpickings (https://zpr.io/vsHXphrqbHiN) Alison Gopnik, developmental psychologist - The Gardener and the Carpenter (https://zpr.io/ewtJpUYxpYqh) Rebecca Sugar, animator - Steven Universe (https://zpr.io/KTtSrdsBtXB7) Nicholson Baker, writer - Substitute (https://zpr.io/QAh2d7J9QJf2) James Gleick, writer - Time Travel (https://zpr.io/9CWX9q3KmZj8) Lady Pink, artist - too many amazing works to pick just one (https://zpr.io/FkJh6edDBgRL) Jenny Hollwell, writer - Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe (https://zpr.io/MjP5UJb3mMYP) Jaron Lanier, futurist - Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now (https://zpr.io/bxWiHLhPyuEK) Missy Mazzoli, composer - Proving Up (https://zpr.io/hTwGcHGk93Ty)   Special Thanks to: Ella Frances Sanders, and her book, "Eating the Sun" (https://zpr.io/KSX6DruwRaYL), for inspiring this whole episode. Caltech for letting us use original audio of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. The entirety of the lectures are available to read for free online at www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.All the musicians who helped make the Primordial Chord, including: Siavash Kamkar (https://zpr.io/2ZT46XsMRdhg), from Iran  Koosha Pashangpour (https://zpr.io/etWDXuCctrzE), from Iran Curtis MacDonald (https://zpr.io/HQ8uskA44BUh), from Canada Meade Bernard (https://zpr.io/gbxDPPzHFvme), from US Barnaby Rea (https://zpr.io/9ULsQh5iGUPa), from UK Liav Kerbel (https://zpr.io/BA4DBwMhwZDU), from Belgium Sam Crittenden (https://zpr.io/EtQZmAk2XrCQ), from US Saskia Lankhoorn (https://zpr.io/YiH6QWJreR7p), from Netherlands Bryan Harris (https://zpr.io/HMiyy2TGcuwE), from US Amelia Watkins (https://zpr.io/6pWEw3y754me), from Canada Claire James (https://zpr.io/HFpHTUwkQ2ss), from US Ilario Morciano (https://zpr.io/zXvM7cvnLHW6), from Italy Matthias Kowalczyk, from Germany (https://zpr.io/ANkRQMp6NtHR) Solmaz Badri (https://zpr.io/MQ5VAaKieuyN), from IranAll the wonderful people we interviewed for sentences but weren't able to fit in this episode, including: Daniel Abrahm, Julia Alvarez, Aimee Bender, Sandra Cisneros, Stanley Chen, Lewis Dartnell, Ann Druyan, Rose Eveleth, Ty Frank, Julia Galef, Ross Gay, Gary Green, Cesar Harada, Dolores Huerta, Robin Hunicke, Brittany Kamai, Priya Krishna, Ken Liu, Carmen Maria Machado, James Martin, Judith Matloff, Ryan McMahon, Hasan Minhaj, Lorrie Moore, Priya Natarajan, Larry Owens, Sunni Patterson, Amy Pearl, Alison Roman, Domee Shi, Will Shortz, Sam Stein, Sohaib Sultan, Kara Swisher, Jill Tarter, Olive Watkins, Reggie Watts, Deborah Waxman, Alex Wellerstein, Caveh Zahedi.EPISODE CREDITS Reported by - Rachael Cusick (https://www.rachaelcusick.com/)Our newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)! Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today. Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org Leadership support for Radiolab's science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

The man considered “The Godfather of A.I.” Geoffrey Hinton abruptly resigned from Google saying… a worst-case A.I. scenario could be on the horizon. With Big Tech companies going all-in on potentially apocalyptic technology while seemingly ignoring the “pause letter” concerned tech leaders created - we were left saying… Really, no,really? Feeling that an informed discussion of A.I. and the potential destruction of humanity felt above their “pay grade”, Jason and Peter turned to Silicon Valley visionary Jaron Lanier.  Computer scientist, composer, artist, and author, Jaron Lanier stands alone as the father of virtual reality, having coined the term and also mixed reality. He was chief scientist for Internet2, led startups that were acquired by Google, Adobe, Oracle, and Pfizer and Lanier's books include: You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, Who Owns the Future? and Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. He is also known as a constructive critic of technology.   Issues Jason, Peter and Jaron discuss: What ever happened to The Pause”? Are A.I. hysterics worsening the underlying problem? Ethically endowed A.I. The reality of sentient and self-directed AI. The dangers of “Ad sponsored A.I. manipulation”. The design choice that gave us internet anonymity -and put us all in peril! Society may be rooting for an A.I. apocalypse. A TikTok be ban? Jaron's opinion may surprise you. Will the government turn off the Internet? Find out more about Jaron: JaronLanier.com Guess who doesn't Tweet or Tik or Tok… Jaron! You can follow us:Website: www.ReallyNoReally.coInstagram @reallynoreallypodcastYouTube: @reallynoreallypodcastTikTok @reallynoreallypodcastFacebook @reallynoreallypodcastTwitter @reallynoreally_ Watch full episodes on YouTube www.youtube.com/@reallynoreallypodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karla Welch, celeb stylist and co-founder of The Period Company, is here to talk Thingies, from life-changing books to an L.A. bagel worth a one-hour wait. Also, we dig into distraction…and deleting social-media accounts.    Re: the impact of social media on our societies, ourselves: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier (and Zach Baron's GQ profile of Jaron), Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport (and David Marchese's NYT Mag interview with Cal, and (what's new?) Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman.    Get your Karla Welch fix via her MasterClass on personal style and by shopping The Period Company, which now available at Walmart.   Karla's Thingies include Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Marie Brown (which made us think about Saving Time by Jenny Odell), Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, her client Sarah Polley (see also: Sarah's film Women Talking and her New Yorker profile), Rhode peptide lip treatment, the NYT Cooking app (follow this IG account for the full commenter experience), Erewhon's strawberry glaze smoothie, and Courage Bagels in L.A.    Share your Thingies (and dream Thingies guests) with us at 833-632-5463, podcast@athingortwohq.com, or @athingortwohq—or join our Geneva! And for more recommendations, try out a Secret Menu membership. This episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct, or indirect financial interest in products, or services referred to in this episode.   Get that protein and fiber with Hero Bread—10% off your first order with the code ATHINGORTWO. Go plant-crazy with Fast Growing Trees and get 15% off your entire order with the code ATHINGORTWO. Listen to Bad on Paper—if you like this podcast, you'll like that one. YAY. Produced by Dear Media  

C.F.W. Walther leads us to older and clearer waters as he poses ten arguments against attending the theatre—now streaming on your phone. Host Rev. Tyrel Bramwell, St. Mark Lutheran Church in Ferndale, California, and author of the book Come in, We are Closed, talks about curious topics to excite the imagination, equip the mind, and comfort the soul with God's ordering of the world in the Law and Gospel. Send him your questions at stmarksferndale.com. You can find his videos at youtube.com/c/tyrelbramwell.

Jaron Lanier, computer scientist, tech pioneer and author of "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now," joins Nick Austin to discuss how social media in its present form harms society, how we got to this place, and what we can do to make improve the platforms for everyone.

Jake and Ron interview Malcolm Devlin, author of And Then I Woke Up  published by TorDotCom!And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin TorDot Comhttps://publishing.tor.com/andtheniwokeup-malcolmdevlin/9781250798084/Malcolm Devlin Web Sitehttp://www.malcolmdevlin.com/Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanierhttp://www.jaronlanier.com/tenarguments.htmlThree Colors Trilogyhttps://www.imdb.com/list/ls068621392/The Endless (2017) directed by Jason Benson and Aaron Moorheadhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt3986820/The Wrath of the iOtiansEmail: thewrathoftheiotians@gmail.comInstagram: thewrathoftheiotiansTwitter:  @OfiOtiansWebsite: https://thewrathoftheiotians.buzzsprout.com/MusicLand Of The Me-me by Aleksandar Dimitrijevic (TONO)Licensed under the NEO Sounds Music License AgreementThe Lowest DeepA supernatural horror fiction series.Listen on: Spotify

Robots are not people, information does not want to be free, and the internet has no consciousness of its own. Meanwhile, human society trades on outrage and no one can tell what is true and what is false. Among the many enduring themes of human experience is how we create tools that in turn re-create us, and the past couple decades are only an accelerated and amplified version of that. With the help of tech critic Jaron Lanier, in this episode Dad and I explore the roots of how the whole world has gone mad, what it means to be and remain a person in the midst of it, and the urgency of doing so. Otherwise, "those who make them become like them," as Psalm 135 puts it. Notes: 1. All of Lanier's books are highly recommended: You Are Not a Gadget, Who Owns the Future?, and Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. 2. Scott, Seeing Like a State 3. Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism 4. Asimov, "Robbie," in I, Robot 5. For more on this topic, see my blog post "Quitting Facebook... Again," our previous QotS episodes What Is a Person? and How to Hack the Law, and my new podcast with my husband Andrew, The Disentanglement Podcast, with explanations of digital tech and practical tips for getting free of its tentacles. Do you rejoice every other Tuesday to see a new Queen of the Sciences episode appear? Then consider supporting us on Patreon. You can start at just $2 a month; more gets you swag. Or just pay us a visit at sarahhinlickywilson.com and paulhinlicky.com!

'Hart op de tong' is a series of talks in Dutch. When you see this title or this picture, you'll know that it's a Dutch Episode.Vandaag hebben we het over social media. En dan met name het stoppen met social media. Ik ben al zover, Sophia bijna. We praten over het proces wat daaraan vooraf gaat, waarom we de beslissing namen, de angsten van het weggaan en de angsten van het blijven, de resultaten na 4 maanden en allemaal leuk en aardig... maar hoe doe je dat als je een bedrijf hebt. Hoe kun je social media mijden als bedrijf. Ben je dan niet goed bij je hoofd? Of best wel slim bezig? GENOEMD IN ONS GESPREK:'Digital Minimalism' - Cal Newport 'Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now' - Jaron Lanier (personal note: the book is good, this man knows things, but his website is horrid... as a branding expert, this is going to haunt me. Is it intentional? Does he not care? Are people not taking him seriously because of that horrible website? Does he not care...? Anyway. end of my note)'the Social Dilemma' documentaryEen van mijn Kindness Economy bijbels over branding (wat niet hetzelfde is als marketing, maar in ons gesprek moest ik even een punt maken...'): 'Brand the Change' - Anne Miltenburg SOPHIA'S NIEUWSBRIEF? MELD JE HIER AANJA, WOL / A SMALLER LIFE MAILS? MELD JE HIER AAN Ik wil heel graag transcripties aanbieden, zodra de community groeit en er geld vrijkomt zal ik hierin investeren. Support the show (https://paypal.me/jawolrotterdam )

"Under the Tree" is an initiative to re - live the child hood and our lives by relating to stories by great writers of yesteryears. The objective is to rekindle the interest of reading and showcase the Indian authors work which give rebirth to the tradition, culture. Spiritual series that is rich in Indian ethos along with Management aspects increase positivity which is much needed always..

How many times have you looked at your phone today? In today's episode, we share books that explore the impact of technology. Books mentioned in this episode: Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams, Feed by M.T. Anderson, Siri, Who Am I? by Sam Tschida, Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi, and Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/keepitfictional/message

Welcome to the first episode of my new solo series. I was inspired to do this because there was a huge influx of questions I received from my listeners as to why I left social media. The answer to that question is incredibly complex and was made due to what I learned about myself, the industry, and life as a whole. I hope my story can inspire all of us to really take note of our social media use and how we're processing information daily.  I want to start off by saying this series will be reminiscent of my stories I used to post on Instagram, just me being authentically me. The layout will be comparable to a conversation, sharing whatever is on my mind depending on the day. I think it's important to start today's episode from the beginning, which is why I started blogging. After having a “why not me?” moment and years of posts without sponsors or partnerships, things began to change. It wasn't long before this “hobby” of mine became a passion. It sparked my curiosity and as a lifelong learner I loved mastering all these new skills I was trying from photography to coding. It was about that time that new social media apps were created and my free blog posts were free no more, which I quickly realized came at a cost. You've heard me say it before and you'll probably hear me say it again, but the effects of these apps are extremely damaging. No matter how alone you are or how much you think these apps benefit you, I promise that you are enough and even better off without them. In this episode I share: The reasons why I wanted to create a blog How old school blogging differs from blogging today My perspective on the evolution of blogging The major changes that came when Instagram Stories were released What the big tech industries have done wrong Use code LYNZY for 30% off Navy Hair Care: Navy Hair Care Shampoo + Conditioner Navy Hair Care Charcoal Mask Use code LYNZY20 for Cerebelly products: Shop Cerebelly HERE More Resources: Digital Minimalism Book Jaron Lanier's Ten Arguments for Deleting your social media accounts right now 30 Day Social Media Detox Challenge SHOW NOTES: lynzyandco.com/motherhood-meets-medicine-the-podcast/ Connect on Instagram @motherhoodmeetsmedicine.  Join the Motherhood Meets Medicine community at patreon.com/motherhoodmeetsmedicine. Disclaimer: This podcast does not provide medical advice. The information on this podcast is for informational purposes only. No material on this site is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. 

I thought it would be fun to start sharing book reviews of books I've enjoyed recently. Today we are talking about Jaron Lanier's Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. I read today's book during midnight nursing sessions and I really enjoyed it. I share 5 points that personally stood out to me, some thought-provoking commentary on what social media is doing to our brains, and what I decided to do after reading the book.   Music by: Taste the Vibe - “Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine? (Mungø Remix)” unedited, via Creative Commons

In this episode, Meagan and Peter are sharing their top ten reads from 2021! Meagan's top ten: 10. The Space between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson https://bit.ly/3luDaBe 9. Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby https://bit.ly/3poAtlH 8. You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar https://bit.ly/3oeAdqe 7. Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse https://bit.ly/31nqmFV 6. Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade https://bit.ly/3IbuRUN 5. A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik https://bit.ly/3IhJUME 4. You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria https://bit.ly/31ofSGb 3. Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert https://bit.ly/3ogrRye 2. In That Endlessness, Our End by Gemma Files https://bit.ly/3xNiIjX 1. Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert https://bit.ly/3En5EV4 Peter's top ten: 10. Tenements, Towers, and Trash by Julia Wertz (Request through Prospector or ILL) 9. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training by Mark Rippetoe https://bit.ly/31fQB1b 8. Sentient by Jeff Lemire https://bit.ly/3GcKusX 7. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier https://bit.ly/3dkYFzL 6. Nudes by Elle Nash (Request through Prospector or ILL) 5. Paradox Twins by Joshua Chaplinsky (Request through Prospector or ILL) 4. It Came from Ohio by RL Stine https://bit.ly/3luaUyF 3. Afterlift by Chip Zdarsky https://bit.ly/3rwYWs2 2. Stillwater by Chip Zdarsky https://bit.ly/3EvsxW4 1. Sexcastle by Kyle Starks https://bit.ly/3lvQ81E

Mark Zuckerberg might be trying to stake his claim on the metaverse, but he's far from the first person to envision a more virtual world. Take it from Jaron Lanier.He's often called the “godfather of virtual reality,” and his company, VPL Research, developed V.R. goggles and gloves in the 1980s. He says he always imagined a metaverse with “a hundred million micro entrepreneurs doing their little thing here and there — there wouldn't be some overlord.” Now, as big companies like Roblox and Epic build virtual worlds, he describes how these technologies will continue to shape our lives.[You can listen to this episode of “Sway” on Apple, Spotify, Google or wherever you get your podcasts.]In this conversation, Kara Swisher talks to Lanier about Facebook's pivot to Meta, which he says sounded “like some megalomaniac took my stuff and filtered it through some weird self-aggrandizement filter.” They also discuss why Lanier viewed technologies like automation and V.R. as “a little technological token of that hope of eternal creativity” back in the '80s. And Lanier, the author of “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now,” makes the case for why Facebook should be paying users for their data.This episode contains strong language.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more information for all episodes at nytimes.com/sway, and you can find Kara on Twitter @karaswisher.

Mark Zuckerberg might be trying to stake his claim on the metaverse, but he's far from the first person to envision a more virtual world. Take it from Jaron Lanier.He's often called the “godfather of virtual reality,” and his company, VPL Research, developed V.R. goggles and gloves in the 1980s. He says he always imagined a metaverse with “a hundred million micro entrepreneurs doing their little thing here and there — there wouldn't be some overlord.” Now, as big companies like Roblox and Epic build virtual worlds, he describes how these technologies will continue to shape our lives.[You can listen to this episode of “Sway” on Apple, Spotify, Google or wherever you get your podcasts.]In this conversation, Kara Swisher talks to Lanier about Facebook's pivot to Meta, which he says sounded “like some megalomaniac took my stuff and filtered it through some weird self-aggrandizement filter.” They also discuss why Lanier viewed technologies like automation and V.R. as “a little technological token of that hope of eternal creativity” back in the '80s. And Lanier, the author of “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now,” makes the case for why Facebook should be paying users for their data.This episode contains strong language.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more information for all episodes at nytimes.com/sway, and you can find Kara on Twitter @karaswisher.

Last week, Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, confirmed what we already felt; that big tech platform's algorithms are manipulating our sense of reality, and ourselves, and in doing so enriching themselves.  Jaron Lanier, the technologist, philosopher, and virtual reality pioneer has been warning us about the dangers of the internet for years. Today, a conversation with Jaron, from his home in California, about the dangers of groupthink, digital maoism, ideology sluts, censorship, capitalism, universal basic income, Facebook, robots, billionaires, wokeness and losing yourself in the ambiguity of the internet's fake reality.  Can the problems of the Information Age be fixed by more regulation? Or will it take a fundamental shift in how we structure our society, and our relationship to emergent technologies to reclaim our humanity?  In addition to being an author of the internet, he worked at Atari and Microsoft in the early days, Jaron wrote, ”Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now” and “Dawn of the New Everything.” He appeared in the movie “The Social Dilemma.”  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Jaron Lanier's Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now.

What's your stance on social media? Do you love it? Hate it? Or, are you somewhere in between? For most of us, our relationship with social media is complicated. We recently read Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier. We found this book to be informative and inspiring and we're excited to share our thoughts and takeaways. SHOW NOTES: http://www.jaronlanier.com/general.html CREDITS: Intro and Outro Song: The Soft Pack - Mexico

 This week's guest is one of my favorite discoveries of the last few years, and someone I'm honored and delighted to know. I can hardly express how strange and exciting it was when I reached out to Tyson Yunkaporta, author of Sand Talk and Senior Research Fellow at Deakin University, and found out he was already a fan of my podcasting…so this episode is a seriously chummy session of mutual discovery by too people perhaps already a little bit TOO familiar with one another's work. Tyson inhabits an awesome position at the intersection of Indigenous knowledge systems, complexity science, cultural criticism, multimedia art and design, and dreaming and scheming on applications for ancient wisdom in the digital and post-digital eras.If you value this show and would like to see it thrive, support Future Fossils on Patreon and/or please leave a good review on Apple Podcasts! As a patron you get extra episodes each month, invites to our book club, and new writing, art, and music.• Meet great people and have equally great conversations in the Discord Server & Facebook Group• Buy the books we talk about from the Future Fossils shop at Bookshop.org• For when you'd rather listen to music, follow me and my listening recommendations on Spotify.• Thanks to Naomi Most for helping edit most of this episode! It isn't easy work.✨ Short Reads• “Building The Ark” - Tyson at e-flux architecture on GameB• Tyson's feature for Melbourne Design Week 2021• “Transformational Festivals Are A Symptom of Dissociation” - Michael Garfield• “Australian Aboriginal techniques for memorization: Translation into a medical and allied health education setting” – David Reser et al. (Tyson is last author)• The Weirdest People in The World — Joseph Henrich• William Irwin Thompson on “The Ghost Dance of the Rednecks”• “The Information Theory of Individuality” - David Krakauer et al.• “Unchained: A Story of Love, Loss, and Blockchain” - Hannu Rajaniemi✨ Podcasts• Future Fossils Book Club Discussion Recording: Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta• “What Can I Do?” on The Other Others• “Maori MAGA” on The Other Others• “Queering Dignitas” on The Other Others• FF 100: The Teafaerie on DMT, Transhumanism, and What To Do with All of God's Attention• FF 86, 87: Onyx Ashanti on Surfing Exponential Change (Part 1, Part 2)✨ Books• Sand Talk - Tyson Yunkaporta• Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now - Jaron Lanier• Scale - Geoffrey West• Count to a Trillion - John C. Wright• Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut✨ Music• Intro Music: Live at The Chillout Gardens, Boom Festival 2016• New Release: House Ship On A Hill (2021)✨ Notes• “The bourgeousie is always plundering the margins for menu options.”• eating peacocks: diverse diets for biodiversity vs. for dominion• how to restore the lost topsoil of Settler culture without stepping on others to do it• culpability (and the role of intent) in the West versus in Indigenous communities• COVID trauma, climate change, and Indigenous postapocalyptic insights for Settler cultures• critiquing the Myth of Primitivism and the Myth of Progress• the destruction of the clan by marriage law and papal decree• sanguinal, geographic, and noetic polities• showing up in society not just as individuals, but as members of family groups• why Indigenous people fall for conspiracy disinformation• getting a smartphone as an adult and how it changes you — firsthand recollections• Marshall McLuhan, neotribalism, banishment, and cancel culture• fractal sovereignty & continental commonlaw• genderqueerness as ontological revolution• decolonizing language and sexuality vs. transhumanist escapism/linguistic reterritorialization• guerrilla weddings in the Age of COVID• trust, smart contracts, and the unsustainability of economies of scale• Megan Kelleher, Holochain, Jim Rutt, Ben Goertzel• liquid democracy• How do you prevent an autonomous zone from being subsumed by colonial forces?• being happy to not have final answers, to be one step in an age of transition• “Land is your smart room [except] it's reciprocal. One of you isn't ‘The User.' … Most of the affordances you're seeking through technology and sci-fi: these are pre-existing things. You find them through a relation and an interspecies communication with your bioregion.”✨ Support the countless hours of research and production that go into Future Fossils• Venmo: @futurefossils• PayPal.me/michaelgarfield• Patreon: patreon.com//michaelgarfield• BTC: 1At2LQbkQmgDugkchkP6QkDJCvJ5rv3Jm• ETH: 0xfD2BC66586FA4FBA189992E9B0037CD5cb9673EF• NFTs: Rarible | Foundation Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/futurefossils. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We are shaking things up this week. Today, I am pretending we are at a dinner party together, and I am sharing some of my favorites and things I would talk about with my friends. The wine I am “enjoying” today will be that of my future self when I am drinking at dinner, enjoying the view with my friends just a few hours after recording this episode. If you were a friend at my house for dinner, we would start by talking about some of our favorite TV shows. I have a secret, or not so secret, desire to be the host of the Bachelorette. I love reality and love TV shows. I'm also watching a few other shows I share about that spark my need for creativity and another that is just such a sweet show. Do you cry at movies? I tell you about a movie I just added to my list of those that have me sobbing at the end.Now for my book picks, if you can believe it, I am reading 7 books right now. It's a good mix of business, inspirational, educational, and a fiction story thrown in there. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid is the fiction story I am reading right now. I started it on my Hawaii vacation because as I mentioned last week I had committed to a full unplug no work, business, or socials, so this was just for pleasure. I am also reading quite a few books I go into detail with that help with doing work with yourself and your thinking, as well as books focusing on money and business. So many great book recommendations for you if you're looking for your next thing to read. What would a dinner party be without games!? This past weekend we had a game weekend and I am sharing some of my favorites. One of the games I love the most is Catan. We play the Cities and Knights version, but it is like Monopoly meets Risk and it is just so much fun. There are a ton of other games I list that are so fun to play with friends and family. If any of these things are your favorites too or you end up trying them, please let me know what you think! I wanna hear from you if you're enjoying these episodes, so please leave a review, share pictures of you listening, anyway you are consuming this content!What's Inside:“Chat” with Crystal-like you're a guest at a dinner party.Hear Crystal's favorite for Wine, Shows, Movies, Books, and Games.Mentioned In This Episode:Joel Gott 815 Cabernet SauvignonConnect with CrystalCrystal on YouTubeCrystal on InstagramCrystal on FacebookCrystal on TikTok

Do you still find yourself struggling with social media? Are you tired of the games and the algorithms? Do you know deep down inside that you should delete your social media accounts but still have a hard time doing so? Or are you considering the pros and cons of social media? This book will help you to think about some things and maybe you’ve never thought before when it comes to social media. You will be challenged with many of these arguments by the author as to why you should delete all your social media accounts right now.

As readers, we often fall into a bubble of reading the same type of book over and over, and our hosts are no stranger to that, which is why during this episode Ryan, Hillary, and Kelso temporarily set aside the Sci-Fi, the Fantasy, the Horror, the Queer Lit, and instead recommend "anything but fiction"! Click the link to purchase the book from our store, or click the (audiobook) link to get the Audiobook on Libro.fm. Thanks for shopping local! Books Mentioned During This Episode RECENT READS Kelso, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/staff/kelso The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel (May 4th) Hillary, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/staff/hillary We Need New Stories: The Myths that Subvert Freedom by Nesrine Malik (May 11th) Ryan, https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/staff/ryan-elizabeth-clark My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (August 31st) (audiobook) The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (audiobook) ANYTHING BUT FICTION Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (audiobook) Hamilton: The Revolution by Jeremy McCarter & Lin-Manuel Miranda (audiobook) Running with Sherman by Christopher McDougall (audiobook) Disney's Land by Richard Snow (audiobook) Mousejunkies! by Bill Burke Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World by Matt Parker (audiobook) Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson (audiobook) Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (audiobook) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost  The Painted Bed by Donald Hall The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman (audiobook) Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier (audiobook) You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier (audiobook) 24/6: Giving up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time, Creativity, and Connection by Tiffany Shlain (audiobook) Zed by Joanna Kavenna (audiobook) The Circle by Dave Eggers (audiobook) The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel (audiobook) Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell (audiobook) You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe (audiobook) Meet Me In the Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman (audiobook) Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature by Angus Fletcher (audiobook) The Cycles of Constitutional Time by Jack M. Balkin The Plague Cycle by Charles Kenny (audiobook) Adventures in Eden by Carolyn Mullet Murder Maps: Crime Scenes Revisited by Dr. Drew Gray Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester (audiobook) (event recording) A Good War is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America by David Griffith POETRY FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY DON'T LIKE POETRY Buddy Wakefield Taylor Mali Amanda Gorman Poetry Society of New Hampshire Slam Free or Die Conversations with Granite State Poets: Maudelle Driskell and Meg Kearney - April 5th Martha Carlson-Bradley and Liz Ahl - April 12th Rodger Martin and Henry Walters - April 19th OTHER LINKS Gibson's Bookstore Website Shop The Laydown Purchase Gift Certificates!  Browse our website by Category! Donate to the bookstore! Check out our Events Calendar! Gibson's Instagram The Laydown Instagram Facebook Twitter Libro.fm (Our Audiobook Platform) Use the code LAYDOWN for 3 audiobooks for the price of 1!  Email us at thelaydownpodcast@gmail.com

Jaron Lanier is a Silicon Valley veteran and a pioneer of virtual reality technology. In Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, as you might expect, he outlines his dissatisfaction with the status quo of the Internet. He admits that his generation of Silicon Valley engineers and entrepreneurs made a grave error in the early days of the Internet by paradoxically believing in the power of everything being "free", while at the same time hero-worshipping successful billionaire capitalists such as Steve Jobs. Lanier is a very witty writer, and the book is peppered with eminently quotable phrases. I structure the recording around these. Here are some of my favourites: "Social media is biased, not to the Right or Left, but downward."; "Your character is like your health, more valuable than anything you can buy. Don't throw it away."; "Hypnosis might be therapeutic so long as you trust your hypnotist, but would you trust a hypnotist who is working for unknown third parties?". Having just recorded the epic nine-part episode of The Anthropology of Childhood, I wanted to go for something a bit lighter here. The topic is serious, but the approach is laid back. Enjoy the episode. *** RELATED EPISODES 104. Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schüll

In this episode of the “Technically Human” podcast, I sit down with Jaron Lanier, the creator of virtual reality. Jaron and I discuss the meaning, and the future, of reality in an increasingly virtual world, and we talk about what virtual reality was in its early stages. Jaron outlines his concerns and critique of technological culture, and he explains why the kind of behavior modification and manipulation engineered by social media platforms has become, in his mind, a “Behaviours of Users Modified, and Made into an Empire for Rent," or a BUMMER.Jaron Lanier is the founder of the field of virtual reality. From 2009, he has worked at Microsoft Research as an Interdisciplinary Scientist in a role called “The Octopus,” (which stands for Office of the Chief Technology Officer Prime Unifying Scientist).In 2010, Lanier was named to the Time 100 list of most influential people. In 2018, Lanier was named one of the 25 most influential people in the previous 25 years of tech history by Wired Magazine, and one of the 100 top public intellectuals by Foreign Policy Magazine. His books include the bestsellers “You Are Not a Gadget, A Manifesto,” “Who Owns the Future?,” and “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now.” His writing appears in The New York Times, Discover, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Harpers Magazine, Atlantic, Wired Magazine (where he was a founding contributing editor), and Scientific American. He has appeared on TV shows such as The View, PBS NewsHour, The Colbert Report, Nightline and Charlie Rose, and has been profiled on the front pages of The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times multiple times. He regularly serves as a creative consultant for movies, including Minority Report and The Circle.He has received honorary doctorates from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Franklin and Marshall College, was the recipient of CMU's Watson award in 2001, was a finalist for the first Edge of Computation Award in 2005, and received a Lifetime Career Award from the IEEE in 2009 for contributions to Virtual Reality.Jaron Lanier is also a musician and artist. He has been active in the world of new "classical" music since the late '70s and writes chamber and orchestral works. He is a pianist and a specialist in unusual and historical musical instruments; he maintains one of the largest and most varied collections of actively played instruments in the world.Produced by Matt PerryArt by Desi Aleman

Nicole and Tori get a crash course on some one-of-a-kind court proceedings and other undiscovered information about Lowndes County history from their guest in this episode. Turns out, times were never "simpler" and people were always crazy. Who knew! The resources talked about in this episode are listed below: His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham; The March graphic novel series by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell; Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Right Now by Jaron Lanier; Inside of A Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz; The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kadir Nelson; Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley; Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi; Catherine Atkins Lowndes County Mississippi Circuit Court Case, circa 1856-57; 12 Years A Slave by Solomon Northup; The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead; Columbus City Minutes, April 1866

In this first episode, Peter and Meagan discuss: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier The Hollow Places by Ursula Vernon Injustice: Gods Among Us by Tom Taylor Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch

In this episode we unpack what authenticity means to us and how it impacts our connections and interactions with others and social media. Questions to ponder: What does authenticity mean to you? What privilege do you hold in being comfortable with authenticity? Would you consider trying to be more authentic with at least one person in your life? What would it look like to be authentic on social media? [Note: In this episode we reference Therapy Thoughts Podcast by Tiffany Roe, The Enneagram Journey podcast by Suzanne Stabile, Enneagram and Coffee Podcast by Sarajane Case, the book “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now” by Jaron Lanier, and a post by @tonitalkstherapy] --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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At the end of every year, it’s good to review what happened before you start making decisions about what you want the next year to look like. In this episode, the humans go back through every episode of the podcast they published in 2020 and talk about what has happened since and how they feel about the topics months later. They end by discussing the future of the podcast and what they want to talk about over the next year.Shownotes:Episode 12: The Experimental DozenCGP Grey Yearly Themes VideoSH13: Using Meditation to Manage StressTranscendental MeditationThe 5 am Club by Robin SharmaSH14: Using Sport to Understand Other HumansThe Stranger by Albert CamusEpisode 15: How to Stop Procrastinating RIGHT NOW / Episode 16: How to Get Your Schoolwork Done by 4:30 pmDeep Work by Cal NewportTheodore Roosevelt’s Schedule during UniversityThe Power of Habit: Why We Do What We do in Life and Business by Charles DuhiggEpisode 17: Staying Healthy while Social Distancing / Episode 18: Sticking to your Goals during QuarantineEpisode 19: Parasitic Social MediaDigital Minimalism by Cal NewportEpisode 20: The Life-Changing Magic of GOING TO BEDWhy We Sleep: The Power of Sleep and Dreams by Dr. Matthew WalkerThe Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin SharmaEpisode 21: When is it Time to Quit your School Clubs?Episode 22: Dear Future SelfA World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal NewportEpisode 23: 10 Books that will Change your LifeEpisode 24: The A to Zs of Getting a JobEpisode 25: Super Chill But Good Job PlanDesigning Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful LifeThe Science of Well-Being by Dr. Laurie SantosEpisode 26: How to WIN at College/UniversityEpisode 27: Is Working Hard a Bad Sign?Chidi refers to Chidi Anagonye from The Good PlaceEpisode 28: What is a 'Good Life'?Episode 29: Cooking Basics so you don't StarveEpisode 30: Tao Te ChingEpisode 31: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now (Part 1) / Episode 32: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now (Part 2)Episode 33: The 5 am ClubRiemann Sum - WikipediaDifferential calculus - WikipediaUtilitarianismDeontological ethicsVirtue Ethics

Jaron Lanier is a musician, computer scientist and renowned technology philosopher who has enjoyed a colourful career in art and technology. He is the author of “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now.” As one of the forefathers of virtual reality, he is also the inventor of the Nintendo Powerglove and Microsoft Team’s Together Mode. He was recently featured in Netflix’s The Social Dilemma, exploring the dangerous impacts of social media on our daily lives. On today’s episode of Innovation Heroes, Peter and Jaron explore how social media’s dark side is creeping into the enterprise, the future of virtual reality and Jaron’s work with Microsoft through-out the COVID-19 pandemic, including Microsoft’s Together Mode. You can learn more about Jaron at http://www.jaronlanier.com/

How does Social Media affect you? Does it take away your ability to empathize with others? Does it make you unhappy? What effect does it have on politics? How does it impact your soul?All these questions and more are tackled in the humans’ second episode on Jaron Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now.Shownotes:The Social Dilemma on NetflixTen Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron LanierThe Science of Well-Being by Dr. Laurie SantosThe Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser - How companies create unique information realities for each of usHow to find out which political parties facebook thinks you supportLord Alfred Tennyson - Evan’s Top Ad Interest on FacebookGoogle shows you results based on who you are: 1, 2, Can We Auto-Correct Humanity? - Spoken Word Video about Social Media useLook Up - Spoken Word Video about Social Media useAll the ways Facebook is making you miserable: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13Millennials’ changing attitudes about sexRussian trolls created the ‘Bernie Bros’Russian trolls impersonated Black activistsRussian bots fuelled the Parkland Shooting conspiraciesMedia bias fact checkAllsides.com bias and fact checkFake News spreads 6x faster than the truthSaudi Arabia makes a robot a citizenThe Nicomachean Ethics by AristotleHistory of Western Philosophy by Bertrand RussellDezinformatsiyaDezinformatsiya in the US ElectionHow VPN’s can save you moneyTools you can use to avoid BUMMERHow to download your data from FacebookHow to Delete or Deactivate FacebookFacebook Feed EradicatorHow to turn off YouTube autoplayBrave Internet BrowserDuckDuckGo Search Engine

Los and Bertram share their thoughts on Netflix's hit documentary, The Social Dilemma. They explore the real problem (and addiction) we face with technology dominating nearly every aspect of our lives today. Thank you for listening. Don't forget to subscribe, leave a review, and make sure to share this podcast. Resources from this episode: https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224 (The Social Dilemma (via Netflix)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BacXAmS6DLQ (Using Screen Time for iPhone, iPad, and iPad touch (via Youtube) ) https://wellbeing.google/get-started/focus-your-time-with-tech/ (Digital Wellbeing for Android Devices (via Google)) https://help.instagram.com/2049425491975359 (How do I set a reminder to let me know how much time I've spent on Instagram?) https://www.facebook.com/help/1737706169659354 (How can I manage the time I spend on Facebook?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-szhNG0u-g (Set reminders to take a break on YouTube mobile) https://www.tristanharris.com (Tristan Harris ) https://www.humanetech.com (Center for Humane Technology) http://www.jaronlanier.com/tenarguments.htm (Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier) https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ (The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff) https://www.yang2020.com/policies/data-property-right/ (Data as a Property Right (Policy Proposal by Andrew Yang)) https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr.asp (General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ) https://www.investopedia.com/what-is-the-california-consumer-privacy-act-4780212 (California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA))

What exactly is the problem with the social media companies? Does it have something to do with data? Where is all this fake news coming from? Why is there so much hate online? A lot of people get the feeling that Big Tech is doing something wrong, but can’t quite put their finger on what it is. In the book, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Jaron Lanier explicitly spelled out 10 fundamental issues with the social media companies and what you can do to help. In this episode, the humans discuss Lanier’s first 5 reasons and why they are so important to understand in today’s society. The conversation got so in depth that the humans ran out of time to record and will return next episode with the final 5 reasons why you should delete your social media accounts.

How do we escape the zero sum game? And what if technology is the drug of the future? [24:20] This week, Joey and Cultural Astrologer Osei Kwakye talk about horse racing, linked fate, D&D lessons from Joey, Tristan Harris, the motif of the cigarette, and the social dilemma. They don't talk about how Aaron is currently winning the great Critical Nonsense swag race—check out the merch here. references Zero-Sum games Chinatown Restaurants Unite. (Also, Send Chinatown Love.) The Verge: Quibi is shutting down. An audio docuseries from the NYTimes: "Welcome to the Rabbit Hole" Pursue Pharma pleading guilty re: OxyContin A playlist for bineural beats The Center for Humane Technology Read Jaron Lanier's "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now"

Oculus Quest 2 VR headset Oculus now requires a Facebook account Jaron Lanier's Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now Adrian's mini-review on Twitter Follow us at @culturescast, and our hosts on Twitter at @adrianhon @naomialderman @andrhia We're on Mastodon at @adrianhon@mastodon.social @naomialderman@mastodon.social @andrhia@wandering.shop

In Episode 21 of the Fate Club Podcast, we discuss our 21st gift from the Universe:  Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. Will this polemic convince us to delete our social media accounts right now?  What is the Universe trying to tell us?  Join us for a lovely chat about Superdrug, peacocking and vague-booking.

Amrita talks about how social media, and Facebook in particular, has changed our experiences of connection and relationships through behavior modification. She invites herself, and all of us, back into conscious empathy, compassion, tolerance, and acceptance. Listen on major podcast platforms. Visit Amrita's website: https://sacredfeminineschool.com/ Show references: "The Social Dilemma" https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224 "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Right Now" https://tinyurl.com/y4njon29

Start of interview [1:06]Kerrie's "origin story" [1:34]Her initiation on corporate governance matters with the UK Institute of Directors (IoD) (2000-2004) [3:49]Her take on corporate director education and training [5:42]Her role at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) (2005-2008) [7:43]Her transition to the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN)  (2008-Present) [9:49]History and mission of ICGN [11:56]. It was established in 1995, it has grow to over 800 members from 43 countries, (~70% of members are based in North America and Europe, ~20% in Asia). These members represent ~US$54 trillion of AUM. ICGN Global Governance PrinciplesICGN Global Stewardship PrinciplesEngagement with regulators (they send ~20-25 engagement letters to regulators per year). "ICGN brings a global investor flavor to national issues."The concept of "investor stewardship" and its evolution over time [15:27]The Cadbury Report (1992)The UK Stewardship Code (2010)The European Shareholder Rights Directive II (SRDII) (2020).Recently, UK and Japan have expanded stewardship principles beyond equity to all asset classes (Japan Stewardship Code, 2020)Her take on the debate of the purpose of the corporation (shareholder primacy vs stakeholders) [20:36]Business Roundtable's Statement on the purpose of the corporation (2019)Europe's Consultation on Sustainable Corporate Governance (2020)Section 172 of the UK Companies Act (2006)CII's statement opposing the BRT's 2019 Restatement ("accountability to everyone means accountability to no one")On the rise of ESG [26:47] "[I think] ESG has grown from a deeper understanding of stewardship since 2008... I would take away the G [since we've always been focused on governance] so really what we have witnessed is the rise of E and S... and this year COVID has shifted the narrative particularly around the S." For example, ICGN members have focused on "human capital management":Health and safetyStaff training due to WFHIncome inequality, pay.Many ICGN members have formed the "Human Capital Management Coalition" which has been engaging with the SEC, resulting in new disclosure rules involving human capital resources  [28:49]Her take on climate change [29:31]ICGN is calling for ESG reporting on an international scale to address climate change.Many ICGN members are calling for Task Force on Climate-Related Disclosure (TCFD) frameworkNZ is the first country in the world to make climate reporting compulsory with TCFD.Her take on diversity [32:38]Focus on disclosure of diversity policies.Measurable targets, goals and time periods.Boards should disclose skills matrix. "For me, one of the biggest barriers of board diversity is director tenure, 'zombie directors', we need to have a policy of board refreshment and board evaluation." "There is still a problem surrounding the 'old boys network', the 'male, pale and stale crew.'"Her take on Big Tech [39:14]She's worried about the "covert behavioral manipulative algorithms that are gradually changing the way we think, feel and act." (for example, as described in The Social Dilemma documentary)ICGN has not weighed into this issue. From a governance perspective many ICGN members cannot influence these companies due to dual-class share structures that make them less accountable to shareholders (ICGN advocates for a "one share one vote" structure)."The U.S. also has weaker data privacy regulations than Europe, and that's a problem."Her parting thoughts for directors "investors are your allies" [44:34]Her favorite books: [49:27]Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, (2018) by Jaron Lanier (this is the book that she's currently reading)Factfulness, (2018) by Hans Rosling.Corporate Governance and Chairmanship, (2002) by Sir Adrian Cadbury.Her professional mentor: [46:45]Anne Simpson, currently at CalPERS.His favorite quotes: [47:50]"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start from where you are and change the ending.” (C.S. Lewis)"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.” (Dr. Seus, The Lorax).Her unusual habit [48:53]The living person she most admires [49:43]David AttenboroughJacinda ArdernMusic/Soundtrack (found via Free Music Archive): Seeing The Future by Dexter Britain is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License

“The Social Dilemma” interviews former insiders at Google, Facebook and Twitter who confess they’re now afraid of the technology they helped to create. Pure Nonfiction host Thom Powers interviews the film’s director Jeff Orlowski, who previously made “Chasing Ice” and “Chasing Coral.”Links to references that arise in the conversation: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now book by […] The post 124: Jeff Orlowski on “The Social Dilemma” appeared first on Pure Nonfiction.

“The Social Dilemma” interviews former insiders at Google, Facebook and Twitter who confess they’re now afraid of the technology they helped to create. Pure Nonfiction host Thom Powers interviews the film’s director Jeff Orlowski, who previously made “Chasing Ice” and “Chasing Coral.”Links to references that arise in the conversation:Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now book by Jaron LanierThe Mechanics and Psychology Behind the Social Dilemma Medium article by Jeff Seibert Moment led by Tim KendallOne Project led by Justin RosensteinThe Center for Humane Technology led by Tristan HarrisI Have Blood on My Hands Buzzfeed article on Facebook whistleblower Sophie ZhangCoded Bias documentary directed by Shalini KantayyaWeapons of Math Destruction book by Cathy O’NeilAlgorithms of Oppression book by Safiya Umoja Noble

Links to references that arise in the conversation:Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now book by Jaron LanierThe Mechanics and Psychology Behind the Social Dilemma Medium article by Jeff Seibert Moment led by Tim KendallOne Project led by Justin RosensteinThe Center for Humane Technology led by Tristan HarrisI Have Blood on My Hands Buzzfeed article on Facebook whistleblower Sophie ZhangCoded Bias documentary directed by Shalini KantayyaWeapons of Math Destruction book by Cathy O'NeilAlgorithms of Oppression book by Safiya Umoja Noble

In this week's episode, a few of Molly's friends join her for a Q&A. From being "Tik Tok famous" to not having any social media apps, David Kandinov, Judah Cohn, and Avi Girnun are all over the social media spectrum. These high school boys open up about “likes,” mental health, toxic masculinity, and how they're affected by social media. Books Mentioned: The Female Brain by Dr. Louann Brizendine- https://www.amazon.com/Female-Brain-Louann-Brizendine/dp/0767920104 (The Male Brain by Dr. Louann Brizendine- https://www.amazon.com/Male-Brain-Breakthrough-Understanding-Think/dp/0767927540 ) Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts by Jaron Lanier- https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1250239087/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1602039736&sr=8-3

How will you feel the day you finally delete all your social media accounts? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss some of the arguments for doing just that in Jaron Lanier’s book “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now.” (Originally published 8/6/2019) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Today's tip is a strange one, but we're going to go deep into the ugly parts of human nature and how I've personally seen social media destroy some writer's careers. Check out Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier (Affiliate Link): https://amzn.to/396PBtV Write like the top 1% of authors with my FREE Writing Craft Playbook: http://www.authorlevelup.com/fanclub Listen to past episodes: http://www.authorlevelup.com/flash  Watch my YouTube channel for writers: http://www.youtube.com/authorlevelup  Read my books for writers: http://www.authorlevelup.com/books  Check out my fiction: http://www.michaellaronn.com  and http://www.mlmcknight.com   

One day in 1961, the famous physicist Richard Feynman stepped in front of a Caltech lecture hall and posed this question to a group of undergraduate students: “If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence was passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words?” Now, Feynman had an answer to his own question - a good one. But his question got the entire team at Radiolab wondering, what did his sentence leave out? So we posed Feynman’s cataclysm question to some of our favorite writers, artists, historians, futurists - all kinds of great thinkers. We asked them, “What’s the one sentence you would want to pass on to the next generation that would contain the most information in the fewest words?” What came back was an explosive collage of what it means to be alive right here and now, and what we want to say before we go. Featuring: Richard Feynman, physicist (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out) Caitlin Doughty, mortician (Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs) Esperanza Spalding, musician (12 Little Spells) Cord Jefferson, writer (Watchmen) Merrill Garbus, musician (I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life) Jenny Odell, writer (How to do Nothing) Maria Popova, writer (Brainpickings) Alison Gopnik, developmental psychologist (The Gardener and the Carpenter) Rebecca Sugar, animator (Steven Universe) Nicholson Baker, writer (Substitute) James Gleick, writer (Time Travel) Lady Pink, artist (too many amazing works to pick just one) Jenny Hollwell, writer (Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe) Jaron Lanier, futurist (Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now) Missy Mazzoli, composer (Proving Up) This episode was produced by Matt Kielty and Rachael Cusick, with help from Jeremy Bloom, Zakiya Gibbons, and the entire Radiolab staff.    Special Thanks to: Ella Frances Sanders, and her book, "Eating the Sun", for inspiring this whole episode. Caltech for letting us use original audio of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. The entirety of the lectures are available to read for free online at www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu.   All the musicians who helped make the Primordial Chord, including: Siavash Kamkar, from Iran  Koosha Pashangpour, from Iran Curtis MacDonald, from Canada Meade Bernard, from US Barnaby Rea, from UK Liav Kerbel, from Belgium Sam Crittenden, from US Saskia Lankhoorn, from Netherlands Bryan Harris, from US Amelia Watkins, from Canada Claire James, from US Ilario Morciano, from Italy Matthias Kowalczyk, from Germany Solmaz Badri, from Iran   All the wonderful people we interviewed for sentences but weren’t able to fit in this episode, including: Daniel Abrahm, Julia Alvarez, Aimee Bender, Sandra Cisneros, Stanley Chen, Lewis Dartnell, Ann Druyan, Rose Eveleth, Ty Frank, Julia Galef, Ross Gay, Gary Green, Cesar Harada, Dolores Huerta, Robin Hunicke, Brittany Kamai, Priya Krishna, Ken Liu, Carmen Maria Machado, James Martin, Judith Matloff, Ryan McMahon, Hasan Minhaj, Lorrie Moore, Priya Natarajan, Larry Owens, Sunni Patterson, Amy Pearl, Alison Roman, Domee Shi, Will Shortz, Sam Stein, Sohaib Sultan, Kara Swisher, Jill Tarter, Olive Watkins, Reggie Watts, Deborah Waxman, Alex Wellerstein, Caveh Zahedi.

Hold onto your Anthologies! Ryan, Hillary and Kelso discuss their favorite short story collections, plus, we remember the legendary Toni Morrison. Also, current reads and upcoming events!   Gibson's Bookstore Website Instagram Facebook Twitter Libro.fm (Our Audiobook Platform) Email us at thelaydownpodcast(at)gmail(dot)com  Click the link in order to purchase the book from our store, or click the "Libro.fm" link to get the Audiobook on Libro.fm. Thanks for shopping local! Remembering Toni Morrison: Beloved by Toni Morrison (libro.fm) The Source of Self Regard (AKA A Mouth Full of Blood) by Toni Morrison (libro.fm) Current Reads: Hillary- Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe (libro.fm) The Source of Self Regard (AKA A Mouth Full of Blood) by Toni Morrison (libro.fm) The Long Call by Ann Cleeves (libro.fm) Kelso- The Surgeon (Rizzoli and Isles Book 1) by Tess Gerritsen (libro.fm) You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier (libro.fm) Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier (libro.fm) Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe (libro.fm) Ryan-  Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey (libro.fm) The Plus One by Sarah Archer (libro.fm) IT by Stephen King (libro.fm) Books Mentioned During Our Short Story Discussion Just After Sunset by Stephen King (libro.fm)  Night Shift by Stephen King Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman (libro.fm) Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman (libro.fm) Kindred Spirits by Rainbow Rowell (Note: We have this in the store for purchase but it is not available on our website, call or email for price.) Almost Midnight: Two Festive Short Stories by Rainbow Rowell (Note: We will need to special order this book if it is still in print, call or email for price.) Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan (libro.fm) Grimm's Fairy Tales (libro.fm) Aesops Fables (libro.fm) A People's Future of the United States - Edited by Victor LaValle (libro.fm) Best American Short Stories of the Century - Edited by John Updike  A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D'J Pancake (libro.fm) The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God by Etgar Keret (libro.fm) Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology - Edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer How Long 'Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jeminsin (libro.fm) The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury (libro.fm) The Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith (Note: This will need to be special ordered, call or email for price.) Upcoming Events RICHARD RUSSO's "Chances Are..." - Tuesday, August 27th at 6:00pm Gibson's Book Club Discusses: Quiet by Susan Cain - Monday, Sept 9th at 5:30pm Madeline Ffitch's "Stay and Fight" - Wednesday, September 11th at 6:00pm Leah Plunkett's "Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk About Our Kids Online" - Thursday, September 12th at 6:00pm

In this episode I talk about: Reception for my new podcast, Writing Tip of the Day - http://www.authorlevelup.com/writingtipoftheday  My small break from writing due to family issues (nothing major) Some thoughts on authors & burnout Social Media; news; break; read Ten Arguments for Deleting by Jaron Lanier; addiction loop Be sure to check out my newest book, Shadow Deal: http://www.mlmcknight.com Check out the AskALLi Member Q&A Podcast with me and Orna Ross (third Saturday of the month): https://www.allianceindependentauthors.org/membersqa/ Learn more about me and my books at www.michaellaronn.com Check out my new urban fantasy book: www.mlmcknight.com Check out all the past episodes on my website: www.michaellaronn.com/podcast My YouTube Channel for Writers: http://www.youtube.com/authorlevelup Also, join my Fan Club to get 3 free novels, early launch pricing, and notifications whenever I release a new book: www.michaellaronn.com/fanclub If you like the show, don't forget to rate and leave a review!

How will you feel the day you finally delete all your social media accounts? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss some of the arguments for doing just that in Jaron Lanier’s book “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now.” Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Does God exist? What are the arguments for the existence of God? Although, the arguments do not prove God's existence with indubitable certainty, they do provide better reasons for belief than the popular atheistic arguments. In this Rob unpacks and explains ten of the more popular arguments for the existence of God. Commercials from: Justin Brierley from Unbelievable and The One Minute Apologist with Bobby Conway. Opening and closing buffer music by Kerry Livgren, "Ancient Wing" from One of Several Possible Musiks." If you have any questions about this show or would like more information about Rob's ministry, send him an email at realissueapologetics@yahoo.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rob-lundberg/message

Twitter, Facebook, Youtube. The past year has brought a backlash against these companies and others over data privacy and their treatment of speech. Tech visionary and critic Jaron Lanier discusses his take on social media and why he thinks you should delete yours.Read Jaron’s latest book: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Right Now.Support our show by supporting our sponsors!Cayman Jack - Cayman Jack provides premium prepared cocktails for those with good taste and little time. Find Cayman Jack at a store near you by visiting caymanjack.com. Please drink responsibly. Premium malt beverage. American Vintage Beverage Co. Chicago, Illinois.

Jon has some explaining to do. He’s back on Twitter a couple years after deleting his account and saying he was never coming back. What!? Why?? Even though Drew and Jon met on Twitter, these days it seems like they can’t be on there at the same time for whatever reason. Drew stopped logging into Twitter a month or so ago. It’s going well. Jaron Lanier’s new book, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, was what convinced him. It’s Instagram Drew is wrestling with. Oh, the twists and turns of figuring out how to be happy on social media in 2019! Want to be internet friends? Write to Drew and Jon (https://internetfriends.show/contact) or find us on Micro.blog at @InternetFriends (https://micro.blog/InternetFriends).

Jaron Lanier is an early Internet pioneer, computer scientist, visual artist, musician, and author of Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. What We Discuss with Jaron Lanier: The real cost of the "everything is free" mentality that accompanied the cultural proliferation of the Internet and social media. How social media manipulates human behavior to threaten free will. Why negative emotions are the lifeblood of social media. How social media contributes to the mass production of misinformation. Why feeding on social media content tailored to you makes it difficult to empathize with the perspective of others. And much more... Sign up for Six-Minute Networking -- our free networking and relationship development mini course -- at jordanharbinger.com/course! If you're only going to take one gluten and dairy-free, keto, paleo, and vegan-friendly supplement to boost energy, balance nutrition, and aid digestion, then Athletic Greens -- with its 76 natural ingredients -- is what we recommend. The Jordan Harbinger Show listeners get 23 travel packs (valued at $79) with their first purchase at athleticgreens.com/jordan! Need custom graphics, logos, or Web design? Access a community of 600,000+ designers by registering at designcrowd.com/jordan and enjoy up to $100 off with The Jordan Harbinger Show bonus offer! Great protection. Fair prices. Easy to use. SimpliSafe is the right way to protect your home at half the size and double the range -- go to SimpliSafe.com/jordan to learn more! Looking to score last-minute hotel deals? HotelTonight has access to unsold inventory from the world's greatest accommodations at a fraction of regular rates. Hit hoteltonight.com and use code JORDANH at checkout for $25 off your first booking! The One You Feed is a podcast by Eric Zimmer and Chris Forbes that hosts inspiring conversations about creating a life worth living. Check it out here! Like this show? Please leave us a review here -- even one sentence helps! Consider including your Twitter handle so we can thank you personally! Full show notes and resources can be found here.

Jaron Lanier’s new book Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now is opening the world’s eyes to the real world consequences of social media’s business model based on maximum addiction and distraction. And it goes way beyond wasting the precious hours of your life. Lanier makes an almost unassailable case that these […]

"What problem are you really solving by deleting your social media accounts?" - Friend of the deleted You've heard the urban legends. People going off social. Many of us think we'll walk away from social media accounts. But how many people do? Listen to a first-hand account of living your life after deleting all your social media accounts. Meet our man off-Facebook Lev Janashvili here. And hear more about Jaron Lanier and his controversial new book, "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now." (Available on Amazon.com) You can learn about Jaron Lanier on Wikipedia. Access the book review on The Guardian here. Time Magazine ran a feature called "The Real Fake News Crisis" looking into the effect of social media on our thinking. Still interested? Read The New Yorker recently wrote on our dissatisfaction with social media: "The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media"        

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A cognition crisis is not defined by a lack of information, knowledge or skills. We have done a fine job in accumulating those and passing them along across millennia. Rather, this a crisis at the core of what makes us human: the dynamic interplay between our brain and our environment — the ever-present cycle between how we perceive our surroundings, integrate this information, and act upon it. - Adam Gazzaley We were profoundly rocked this summer by Jaron Lanier’s new book: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, and this podcast episode explores the reasons why this book has had such an immense impact on each of us. How does social media impact our access to economic dignity? What are the long-term implications of new technology? Why is the freemium model of social media so dangerous and why does the success of HBO and Netflix highlight what’s wrong with free software? What does social media and artificial intelligence have to do with religion and spirituality? Other Mentions: The Cognition Crisis Joy: Mary Robinson launches new feminist fight against climate changeHustle: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

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Is social media harming us? Dr. King, the Director of Consumer Privacy at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, discusses what is wrong with the current internet algorithms, unseen manipulation, and behavior modification techniques.Transcript:Lisa:Method to the Madness is next. You're listening to Method to the Madness, a biweekly public affairs show on KALX Berkeley, celebrating Bay Area innovators. I'm your host, Lisa Kiefer. Today I'm speaking with Dr. Jennifer King. She's the director of consumer privacy at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. We'll be talking about the problems with social media today. Welcome to the program, Jennifer. Jennifer:Thank you. Lisa:You've recently gotten a new job at Stanford Law School. Can you first of all tell us what you're doing down there? Jennifer:Yes. I just graduated my PhD back here at Berkeley. Lisa:In what?Jennifer:Information science. At Stanford, I am the director of consumer privacy at the the Center for Law and Society at Stanford Law School.Lisa:You just started though.Jennifer:At Stanford, yes. I started in April before I graduated. Lisa:Last week, I had an interesting conversation with Jaron Lanier, who just wrote a book called Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. I thought I'd have you on the show to talk about some of the ideas that we talked about since that is your area. Everybody knows there's something wrong right now in our society. Journalism is failing. Politics is failing. People are afraid they're losing their jobs to AI. Whether they are or not, they're afraid of it. There's a lot of social anxiety. What do you see as the problem with social media or do you?Jennifer:With social media specifically? Because there's a lot there. I think one of the challenges with social media is that it de-individuates us or it takes us away from our humanity to some extent. It's the same way when you're driving in a car and there's that object between you and the rest of the world and you might be a totally reasonable person in real life and then you get behind the wheel and you get road rage or you just find that you treat people more like objects than other people. When you communicate with people through a computer, it's that same object between you and them. I think it prevents us in some ways from connecting with people. Lisa:There's a lot of research now that backs up, especially with young people, that there is more anxiety, there's more sadness. I don't know exactly how they're measuring sadness but that people are acting out differently, particularly young people, which is scary. I think we need to re-examine Google and Facebook and others. Some aren't in the business of behavior modification, but the business model, it's not that the people behind it personally are doing this, but the business model they've created with machine language literally takes us on a downward path. It's not left or right. It's actually down because the algorithm support and make money off of negative emotions. Jennifer:Sure. I've worked in Silicon Valley, and I can tell you having been-Lisa:Who did you work for?Jennifer:I worked for Yahoo. I worked for other startups too, but I worked for Yahoo back in the early 2000s, and was part of not directly developing social media software that was part of that scene, you could call it in the Bay Area back around 2000-plus where I was part of those social networks that emerged during that time. I think we were all very optimistic, and there wasn't a lot of thought about what the consequences were of any of these things people made. It was mostly like, let's just try this and see what happens. I think at first, there was an optimism driving it. We're doing this because let's see what happens. It could be really interesting. I think that shifted. It shifted over time from that to let's do this and maybe we'll get acquired by somebody to now let's do this and see how much personal data we can potentially mine from this product and from these people using it. Part of that is the consequence of building this entire infrastructure off the idea that it's free and not making people pay for it. I think the other piece of it too is that most of the people in this space, I would argue, are not thinking about what these products would do or these services would do to kids. It was one thing to put a lot of this in the hands of people who already had a solid footing on what it meant to talk to people in reality. We didn't grow up with phones and we barely grew up with computers, many of us, and so we had a foundation for what it meant to interact with people. Now suddenly, you have kids who've grown up immersed in this technology and it's shifted to where it's almost as if they don't know how to interact with each other. Lisa:Right. It's a big intermediary for them. Jennifer:Yeah. Professor Sherry Turkle has written extensively on this. I think she's done some of the best research on it. Lisa:Where is she?Jennifer:She's at MIT, and she's published several books in this area and that's where I'm drawing some of my own insight. Lisa:It's an unfortunate collision of math and human biology. Jennifer:Yeah. I would say, too, part of the challenge is that being a technologist has suddenly brought with it a lot of power in the society. We don't educate technologists to think about other people. If you are a Berkeley or a Stanford computer science student, for the most part, I don't believe you even had to take any ethics requirements in the past. I know that's changing, but you've been able to tinker with this giant social experiment without necessarily having any education or training or having been challenged to really think about the consequences of your actions on other people. It's mostly just been a chase to see what cool thing can we make next. I think we're seeing the consequences of that.Lisa:We are. There seems to be a groundswell now of people, at least researchers, academicians, economists, who are now looking at all of this behavior modification and the implications. They're also looking at data as labor instead of data as capital because for the first time ever, I think there are just a few people who own these big, what Jaron Lanier called siren servers, and they're making money on everybody else. There's only one buyer and multiple sellers of information so it's a monopsony. Jennifer:Yes, a very hard word to say. Lisa:Yes. I want to talk about that, all of the data that's been pulled from us with our knowledge and without our knowledge. Jennifer:That's a tough one because from my perspective, I study privacy and I study people. I try to understand how information privacy, how people think about it, what they care about. I'm willing to bet that most of us have figurative piles of digital photos hanging out either on our personal computers, on our phones, and managing all those things is really hard. I don't think I know anybody who actually has a grip on the number of photos they take. Lisa:I don't even look at them anymore. Jennifer:Right. I think you can extend that to your own data. We talk about a lot about we want to give people more control and we want to put them in control. If we could just somehow get our hands on this ephemeral data, then it will be okay. My skepticism with that just comes from the fact that it's such an information overload that it's possible we could build an infrastructure that makes it easy for people or at least easier. Right now, I think the push to get people's hands on the data isn't going to necessarily have the effect we want it to or that we might be hoping it will. I think there are good reasons for making the companies open up their platforms that have to do with issues of power and control and just trying to force a level of openness that doesn't exist presently. Whether that ends up with empowering people individually because they can actually see what data is collected about them, I'm a little bit skeptical of that actually.Lisa:What about data? People talk about universal basic income, but now people are talking about you've gotten these companies rich off of all this data and with your consent. You've given this away, but now-Jennifer:Kind of your consent. Lisa:Yeah. There are people, groups like datavest and researchers. Even at Stanford, they're looking at the idea of monetizing your data so that in place of a universal basic income, someday you might get every month a certain amount of money in return for the barter that you've given away your private life. Jennifer:Not to wallow in trendy technologies right now, but I think we've ... I don't know if your listeners or if you've talked so much about blockchain. Lisa:Oh yeah, I've had people on here actually from the UC Berkeley blockchain group. Jennifer:Great. I don't know if blockchain is the answer to that problem, but it seemingly could potentially be an answer to the data management piece. Every proposal I've seen in this vein has (a) put the burden on the individual to manage it in a way that I don't think most people want to do. You can't manage your photos. You don't also probably want to manage your personal data on a day-to-day basis. Lisa:Exactly.Jennifer:I don't even balance my checking account anymore. I just ... What has to give? I have to say I don't know too much about the blockchain proposal insofar as I have seen it voiced as a potential solution for this distributed data management problem. Lisa:It seems to me that if Facebook and Google were smart, they would get off this business model that's on a downward anyway because it's going to implode. You can't take data as capital forever. If they would say, okay, we realize what we're doing and now we're going to turn around and give you back something, they'll probably never do that because their business model, they make too much money. There are groups like of datavest. They propose a co-op organization where they are the intermediary between the big computer monsters that they're leasing to do this complex mathematical, but blockchain would be part of that probably, keeping accounting records and-Jennifer:Right. Making it manageable for end users, for individuals. I think that the challenge is that right now in some ways, collecting data is more valuable than it potentially has been before because companies are using this to feed their AI systems. It's a big training base. Given how much focus right now is on AI and improving those systems ... As an information scientist, I can tell you that you need data to train those systems to improve them. Lisa:Like language translation. Jennifer:Absolutely.Lisa:You need real people. They're grabbing real people's translations in order to make the Google Translate work better. Jennifer:Which I think is actually a really excellent example of this being used for good in a sense.Lisa:It is, but what about the jobs of human translators? At some point, there's real no artificial intelligence right now, but at some point when perhaps there is, they won't have a job anymore. Jennifer:Well, I don't know if it necessarily obviates all human translators, but I will tell you I was in Mexico last year. I wasn't going to hire a translator to go with me from place to place to place, but Google Translate was really helpful for trying to talk to a cab driver because my Spanish is terrible. Lisa:I agree with you there, but let's pay those human translators for that data. Jennifer:Sure. Yeah. Just to go back to that thought though. One of the reasons why I don't think you'll see the recognition by the companies that this could be a downward slope right now is because right now as they're trying to improve their consumer AI systems, there is probably a fanatical need or desire for as much data as you can get. Given that, I think if you want to see the changes you're talking about, it will probably emerge through civil society and other groups putting together proposals and pushing it. I think you'll have to see it from a government side ultimately. I don't know if you'll see it in this country. Lisa:There does have to be some oversight. I don't know. I feel like this problem is so urgent right now. When you look at the Annapolis shootings, which some people are saying were triggered by trolls online, and that could be misinformation. It's hard to find the truth that is hurting our society. Also with journalism, I use that as an example a lot because they missed the Trump election. They missed the recent Brooklyn, the young woman who beat out the stronghold Democrat challenger. That was completely missed. What's going on? They can't afford investigative journalists. Most organizations can't anymore, so finding out the truth is really difficult. I think that's changing us. In so many ways, it's making us more siloed. We don't know what red states are thinking because we only see what the algorithms want us to see. It's creating this bifurcated society. In fact, it turns out a lot of technologists send their kids to Waldorf schools and Montessori schools because they're worried about this. Jennifer:I don't let my kids use a lot of technology. Lisa:You don't? Why?Jennifer:Well, I guess to go back full circle to the social media piece. Again, I think using social media is a different experience for those of us who have developed the skill in her personal communication and relationships in person and that it's a much different equation when you're talking about kids. It used to be that the internet was connecting us across space, and now we're seeing it used in a very hyper local way when it used to connect people who were sitting right next to each other. That's a very different vision, I think, than where we started from, and I don't think we've thought so much about what that means for the people inhabiting that space together. Certainly with teenagers, you see it in terms of the competition it fosters for I want the best Instagram photo. I would say it's a double ... two big parts to it. One of it is parents saying something, I mean really being involved and understanding what their kids are doing, which I realize is not always easy, especially if you're not particularly tech literate. I'm just, as a parent, I'm often amazed how many small children I see who are just given phones and parents are ignoring them and they're just going on and on and on. It just amazes me. There's definitely been greater calls to tech companies to really start thinking more about the implications of what they're doing, not only on this, but a lot of parts of their work across society. I think that the types of restrictions we have on phones, for example, are in their infancy. We could do a lot more in terms of thinking through like what's an appropriate set of parental controls you can put on a phone? For example, to get to meter kids' usage so you can teach them, bound it, like this is what it means to be on your phone for 20 minutes and when the 20 minutes are up, you're done. You're locked out.Lisa:They can get around that stuff though. They're going to be so much more tech savvy than you or I.Jennifer:I have younger kids, so I'm still-Lisa:They'll just hack your restrictions. Jennifer:I'm still biased towards the fact that I can take the thing away from my five-year-old versus having a 15-year-old with a phone, which I realize is different.Lisa:If you're just tuning in, you're listening to Method to the Madness, a biweekly public affairs show on KALX Berkeley, celebrating Bay Area innovators. Today, I'm speaking with Dr. Jennifer King. She's the director of consumer privacy at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Well, I wanted to ask you about your new job at Stanford Law School. California just passed this pretty intense data privacy law. It isn't as restrictive as Europe, but can you talk about that and explain what's going on to our listeners? Jennifer:The law that was just passed was the result of we'll say panic by the tech sector with the upcoming ballot initiative that was to appear on the ballot in November. There was a ballot initiative or it was placed on the ballot that would have had placed some more restrictions on privacy with respect to tech companies. Some of the provisions in the ballot measure ended up in this final bill but not all of them. When I looked at this bill, again I'm not a lawyer so that's my disclaimer for my own analysis, but one of the things I actually was frustrated by, which I don't know if we'll see addressed ultimately because a lot of the talk last week was around the fact that doesn't go into effect until 2020 so we may see amendments to it. It was that it doesn't place any limits on the collection of data nor on the reselling of it. It gives consumers a little bit more power than they had before, but I'm actually fairly disappointed with the outcome of that bill because I don't think it really does much beyond allowing you to say, hey, don't sell my data. A lot of the big companies that we've been concerned about actually aren't selling your data to begin with. They're collecting it, and they're selling access to it, and that doesn't change at all under this bill. It doesn't curb some of the, I think, the worst cases we see of data being collected without your explicit consent. It does nothing about that consent issue. If you download a free app for a smartphone and the app developer is using a third party advertising service that serves ads in the app, that service is collecting data from your phone about your usage as you're using it. The same with any website that you're not blocking third party cookies or third party ad trackers on, if you're using a regular computer and a browser, those ad services are also collecting data from you or from your browser experience. This bill doesn't really do anything to curb that. Lisa:Does it do anything about the cameras on your phones and computers that are looking at your facial expressions and that goes into the machine language algorithm as well, the listening that goes on with your devices?Jennifer:Yes, you have devices in your pocket that can listen to you and can take your picture. Certainly the way they get consent from you is often not clear. Lisa:Most of the time, you don't read the consent anyway on these sites that you go to. Jennifer:However, it is against the law for them to be surveilling you without you having consented. At the same time, you might be using a service that wants to capture your voice as part of what it does, so take a smart speaker, for example. That's an area I've been looking at a bit lately.Lisa:Like the Alexis and Siri.Jennifer:Right. They're voice activated. They need to listen to you. For how long and what it records and the duration and what it does with that recording is an interesting question, but that is the essence of a smart speaker so you do have to let it capture your voice. It's just a question of then what happens to that data. Lisa:In your capacity, in your new job, what are the problems you're trying to solve in the near term? Jennifer:My job is research focused, so part of it is about the type of research that I am looking to do. Because I just graduated with my PhD, some of it is about publishing my own dissertation work.Lisa:Which was on what?Jennifer:Privacy. I don't think I want to go into the details. It's a long and complicated thing. Lisa:It's private.Jennifer:It's not private, but I think it would bore a lot of people. Some of the issues that I've been interested in exploring in this new role are genetic privacy. Actually, a part of my dissertation research was on 23andMe users. I was very interested in looking at-Lisa:What they do with that information?Jennifer:Yeah. Also just people's expectations around it and what motivates them to have their DNA sequenced and what happens to your DNA after you give it to a service like that. That's an area I've been interested in looking at, as well as emotional privacy because I think one of the things that's been a side effect of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica and something I saw in my own work is that people often get the most concerned about their privacy when it comes to data about them that really gets to who they think they are. By that, I mean it's one thing for a credit reporting company to collect your address and your credit history. That's important information and, of course, we're upset if it gets breached. Your sense of privacy around it I think is different than, for example, another piece of my dissertation research was looking at people's search queries. One of the things I found was that actually of the people I looked at, I asked these 23andMe users about their genetic data as compared to their search queries. Most of them were far more concerned about the content of their search queries than about their DNA. That was mostly because they felt like their DNA, sure, it identifies you uniquely, but they felt like it didn't tell people about them. The way that if you looked at five years of your search queries, your unfiltered search queries, that could tell you much more about who they are, what they're thinking about, what they care about. Lisa:That's interesting. Maybe because search queries are free, but the 23andMe, you have to pay to join that service. I've done it, so I know there's a certain fee. With that fee structure, maybe that makes people think, oh well, data is private. It's not going to be-Jennifer:The question of paying for it, yes and no. Yes, it definitely ... When people pay for something, what I've observed is that there are definitely more expectations around I paid for this, so they better not sell my data or at least I hope they won't. With free services, there's also an expectation of privacy. It's not as if most people use something like Google search and assume that their search queries are going to be used in a multitude of different ways against them or released to the public. People had privacy expectations in that data even if it was [crosstalk].Lisa:That's important to talk about.Jennifer:What Cambridge Analytica and Facebook has also shown us is the power of the emotional data, which is something I'm also trying to focus on because I think that's the next frontier. I think it's the next frontier in terms of the types of data we're going to try to let's say extract from people. There are people focusing on emotion recognition as a way to improve different experiences, technological experiences. I, of course, being a skeptic, I'm always skeptical leading into these things, so I'm really curious to keep an eye on companies that are doing emotion detection and see where that goes in terms of the next type of data we've been collecting about people would be your emotional state. There's lots of research into computer mediated communication that charts basically all of this. The research is there. You just have to know where to look for it and put it into play. Lisa:Maybe we should start educating people at a very early age, like elementary school about privacy. Is that something-Jennifer:You can talk to my rising fourth grader.Lisa:Have you thought about that? We need to institute this in schools if we're going to-Jennifer:Yeah, there are definitely people in the privacy research field who have worked on curriculum for at least high school students. I agree that it should go probably at least middle school and maybe the fifth grade, fourth grade, fifth grade level. There are definitely people working on that. How widely distributed that curriculum gets, I think that's the challenge. It'd be nice if California as a state did something with it rather than it just being a one-off one teacher in one school being interested in that issue. Going back to the genetic data piece and the search query piece. One of the things though that is really interesting about the genetic data area is the fact that a lot of what you're doing with that is sharing it with other people in the service. Whether that's looking for relatives or with 23andMe, you can share it with the company for their development or for their research purposes. One of the things I thought was really interesting about the people I talked to who used it was how much they were motivated by that sharing, the research sharing with the expectation that, hey, if my data is used to develop a new drug that can help the world, great.I'm a skeptic so my counterpoint was, sure, it could be used, but it might be used to develop a drug that then their pharmaceutical partner charges $50,000 a dose for. There's no-Lisa:Right, or that you get absolutely nothing for-Jennifer:Right. You don't get anything from it monetarily. That's another interesting area of people willingly contributing their data to a private database for private development with no guarantees that there'll be a public benefit from it. Lisa:I really think we need to innovate that business model and return, in some way monetize this data that is benefiting a few people. You look at Facebook. 60% of it is owned by Mark Zuckerberg. They don't have that many employees. It needs to be more democratized. Jennifer:Well, I would argue. I was reading something recently online that was asking four notable internet theorists about basically what went wrong. It got me thinking about like what would I do? What would I have changed about the last 25 years? I think that going back to the mid to late '90s, there was a real ... The drum beat from Silicon Valley as much as it was an internet business at that point was very much like leave us alone. Don't regulate us in any way. Don't crush the internet. Let it blossom. Let it grow. There was pretty much a total hands-off approach with a couple of small exceptions along the way. I think if I went back in time, the thing I would change is not necessarily regulating, but I think making this expectation that there needed to be a public benefit. I don't know how I would do that, to be honest, if it's that the companies needed to ... Actually, I think maybe not a bad model would be looking back at radio and the development of radio and the fact that you used to have the fairness doctrine and public service announcements. There was this explicit recognition that the radio waves were a public resource and that they would lease them to private broadcasters, but there had to be some public benefit that they gave back. I wish we could have made that more explicit in the development of the internet.Lisa:Some people think what went wrong is that it was free, that if we would have had to pay just a nominal amount of money for the right to browse or whatever, we wouldn't be dealing with all the advertising and behavior modification and so on. Jennifer:I was interviewed recently by some undergraduates at Stanford, and they asked me some pretty challenging questions that I had to stop and think about it too. Part of it was like, why do you do this? Why are you interested in this stuff? Given how many bad things feel like they're happening today, it's a real challenge to think about why are we doing this? Why am I involved in technology? Why don't I just run away and do something else? I think because there have been some real positive changes, despite all of the negative ones. I guess at the end of the day, I feel like it's not worth giving up on it at this point. Not that we even could, but I think that we let industry drive everything for the last 25 years. I think what you're seeing is a real recognition by people that they have to take this back into their own hands to some extent, both in terms of how they're being used and their data and just the power these large companies have to shape society in a way that I think people are really recoiling from. How we do that, I think some of the things we've talked about today are some of the hints that people collectively getting together and thinking about what can we do to shift the power balance. I think it is important to remember that this technology gives you a lot. There's a lot of things. I think if you asked us, would we go back to 1995 and give up some of the things we have now such as your ability to use a map online or a map on a phone? I think that's a pretty powerful tool.Lisa:[crosstalk] from your child at school. Jennifer:Right. I always joke when I first got a cellphone, the first thing, I was living in Hawaii, the first thing I did was went to the beach and called people back in California going, "I'm calling you from the beach."Lisa:It's not the internet. It's not the technology that's a problem, I think. It's the-Jennifer:It's the people.Lisa:The behavior modification algorithms. I think it's just we need to change the model. We're not going to get rid of the technology, but make it better, like you say. I think that's wonderful. It's a good goal. You have a lot of work ahead of you. Jennifer:Yeah. I can't retire anytime soon. Lisa:I'd like to have you back on at some point and once you've been in this role for quite a while and see what you're thinking then.Jennifer:Yeah. Lisa:You've been listening to Method to the Madness. You can find all of our podcasts on iTunes University. We'll be back in two weeks. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With zero experience running a professional kitchen, home cook Robert Maxwell poured his life savings into his passion project: a gastropub-inspired Toronto restaurant. It became a crash-course in coping with stress, managing his cashflow, and curbing his ego.In this funny, forthright interview with Olly, Robert reveals how chasing his dream led to him selling his house, hitting the bottle and falling out of love with the thing he loved the most... cooking.Meanwhile, in this week’s Zeitgeist, Ollie Peart considers whether or not he is a B.U.M.M.E.R after reading Jaron Lanier’s new book, ‘Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now’. If you have a Challenge for Ollie, visit MODERNMANN.CO.UK and click ‘Feedback’ to submit your idea.Elsewhere, down the Foxhole, Alix Fox - fresh from co-hosting Radio 1’s new podcast ‘Unexpected Fluids’ - advises a Mann-fan on the best techniques for couples to get jiggy… when you’re both fat.If YOU have a question of sex for Ms. Fox, visit MODERNMANN.CO.UK and click ‘Feedback’ to submit it - you can remain anonymous if you wish. We’re delighted that, for another series, The Foxhole is brought to you in association with our friends at MyCondom.com - remember to use our discount code ‘FOXHOLE’ to get 15% OFF your basket at Checkout.In this week’s Lifehack, discover some top tips on how to meditate, courtesy of Zoe from The Refinery, Hackney. The Lifehack is sponsored by Podcast Lounge - the new podcatcher app for Windows 10 devices. Get your free trial at the Windows App Store now.Finally, our record of the week is a stonking track for the Summer - ‘Violet City’ by Mansionair, available to stream courtesy of Glassnote Entertainment.Enjoying the show? Support us! Please consider buying us a beer, sponsoring an episode, or leaving us a review whether you get your podcasts. All links on our website, MODERNMANN.CO.UK.Thanks to Toronto Life, who first published an article by Robert Maxwell, thereby bringing his story to our attention. If YOU have a story you’d like to share, visit MODERNMANN.CO.UK and click ‘Feedback’ to drop us a line.See You Next Tuesday!Presenter: Olly Mann. Contributors: Ollie Peart, Alix Fox, Robert Maxwell, Zoe Bertali, Mansionair. Producer: Matt Hill. Theme Music: 'Skies Over Cairo' by Django Django. Graphic Design: Jenny Mann Design. Copyright: Olly Mann / Rethink Audio 2018. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

记得去年文化图都做过一期夏季阅读的节目，推荐了一批适合带去海边阅读的书籍。今天我们的节目同样会邀请我们的嘉宾分享他们2018年的假期阅读。英剧迷六月分最期待的迷你剧，由休格兰特（休叔）和本·威士肖（本喵）《一个非常英式的丑闻》A Very English Scandal 三集刚刚全部在英国播出，月底会在亚马逊Prime上演。这个以真实故事改编的剧集讲述了1960年代末，在同性关系刚刚合法化的英格兰，自由党领袖Jeremy Thorpe在政治生涯冉冉升起的同时，力图隐藏一个自己的秘密的故事。这期嘉宾是艺术家龙荻和翻译家Gigi。节目中提到的作品信息有：剧集《英国式丑闻》A Very English Scandalhttps://movie.douban.com/subject/27038857/维基词条 Sodomy Lawhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_law电影《莫里斯》https://movie.douban.com/subject/1293456/2018年假期阅读：小说《失踪的总统》，比尔·克林顿，James Patterson ——这本书已经有中文版了！https://book.douban.com/subject/30218923/小说《太阳照常升起》，海明威https://book.douban.com/subject/1174722/食谱 Downtime: Deliciousness at Home Rene Redzepihttp://suo.im/p9hy90弹词《再生缘》陈端生https://book.douban.com/subject/1133565/长诗《失乐园》米尔顿https://book.douban.com/subject/2032523/绘本《失乐园》作者 Pablo Auladell 是西班牙人http://www.pabloauladell.comhttp://suo.im/mvrm1h节目中提到的北京的漫画商店叫“木鸟”http://www.dianping.com/shop/67945613杰伦·拉尼尔的新书叫 Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Nowhttp://suo.im/4n71Xb他之前的书有中译版本的是：《互联网冲击：互联网思维与我们的未来》https://book.douban.com/subject/25866261/《虚拟现实：万象的新开端》https://book.douban.com/subject/30188010/《你不是个玩意儿》https://book.douban.com/subject/6753827/乔丹·彼得森的新书叫 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaoshttp://suo.im/4Y1HDy《三联》曾今有过一篇报道《乔丹·彼得森现象》http://suo.im/4n71LT他还有一个豆瓣思想学习小组。。。https://www.douban.com/group/627479/推荐看油管网红Contrapoint拆解彼得森的思想，自动中文翻译OK的：https://youtu.be/4LqZdkkBDasIntro音乐是dodie的You，Outro音乐是Elton John的Daniel更正：节目中Gigi提到作曲家布烈顿/Benjamin Britten根据美国作家麦尔维尔小说改编的歌剧《水手比利·巴德》的填词是W.H.奥登，这是错误的，歌剧填词是E.M.福斯特和Eric Crozier。但是奥登和Britten的友谊对后者的创作确实有影响，Britten 的“左翼”政治音乐，包括他的第一个声乐交响乐 Our Hunting Fathers，有很多是和奥登一起创作的。Britten的《圣西西里亚赞美歌》（Hymn to St. Cecilia）和《圣诞颂歌》（A Ceremony of Carols）都取材于奥登诗。 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

No one should be more zealous than Theonomists in the war against the heresy of Legalism. Our struggle is not only with modern antinomians, but also with neo-Judaizers. Gordan Runyan contends that the Paul's letter to the Galatians, far from being anti-theonomic, in fact gives us weapons for our warfare.