This is a YouTube video titled "Does The Internet Know You Better Than You Know Yourself?" created on March 14, 2020. The content features a single speaker discussing insights from psychologist Daniel Kahneman about human memory limitations and how digital platforms like Google, Facebook, and YouTube collect extensive data to influence and manipulate users by exploiting their insecurities and fears.
A really famous psychologist, Daniel Kahneman, who actually won the Nobel Prize in economics based on something called cognitive biases, insecurities, and how we make decisions. He said something at a speech once that really freaked me out. He said, the human being remembers about 0.05% of their memories. Of their memories. 0.05% of their memories. Yeah. And a memory's period of time, moments of time, are defined as three seconds intervals. Because that's how long it takes for the neurons to actually fire and create a memory, right? Yeah. Three seconds. If we're only remembering 0.05% of all of our memories and all the actions we've done, a computer database that remembers all of it, all of it, including, yes, where you take your cell phone, As you go on an easy pass, as you use Google Maps, plus all your offline purchase data, everywhere you've ever lived, everywhere you've ever had a meal. You go buy, yeah. Coffee, vitamins, you take everything like that. Plus, it's studying what content you read, what videos you watch, what magazines you subscribe to. Holy. So now it's like, wait a second, what do you mean Google or Facebook or YouTube knows me better than I know myself? Well, excuse me, Mr. or Mrs. Human Being, you only remember 0.05%. And the computers, the databases remember all of it. And therefore, as they're sending that stuff, it becomes very easy. scarily, wickedly easy to tap into your insecurities and your fears by playing you information that they already know will rattle you and trigger you.
