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Something Is Very Wrong With Modern Life - Arthur Brooks - #1109
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Are We Living in a Simulation?
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Arthur Brooks opens by arguing that algorithms have created a left-brain simulation of real life, trapping people in the wrong hemisphere and making meaning structurally impossible to find. [1] — Arthur Brooks "Algorithms have built a left-brain simulation of real life that keeps us placid, feeds off our attention, and structurally cannot satisfy o…"
Algorithms have built a left-brain simulation of real life that keeps us placid, feeds off our attention, and structurally cannot satisfy our right-brain needs for love and meaning. We are living in the Matrix — not from Sci-Fi, but from Silicon Valley.
More than 85% of pornography is consumed by men, and the more they consume the lonelier they actually become despite momentary relief.
