🧠 vs 💻: The Battle for Your Mind

3 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Social media platforms operate as trillion-dollar machines with computational power that outmatches human cognition, making our brains vulnerable to algorithmic persuasion regardless of how smart we are. Speaker B compares digital threats to computer viruses: we underestimate the danger because we don't see the attack happening.

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So, so have you got an example of that in terms of how somebody might wrap some ideas or persuasion around their identity?
A million examples. Let's go. Just for the first, to give you an example of what I just talked about. If I don't believe that computer viruses are dangerous, I don't download McAfee. I don't download the antivirus software. And if I believe that about my own brain, then I don't learn enough to defend that when it comes in, when that attack comes in. The social media computers that we're dealing with on a daily basis are $1 trillion machines. And I don't care if you have a 500 IQ, 3 times what Einstein did, you are vulnerable to that. And it is— your brain is no match for a $1 trillion machine. And it will outthink us every step of the way.