How Your Brain Is Getting Hacked: Facebook, Tinder, Slot Machines | Tristan Harris
Casinos, magicians, and the makers of social media platforms all know something about you: your mind is very vulnerable to influence. Just as the magician relies on limitations in your short...
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One thing we don't talk about is that—it's sort of hard to talk about this—our minds have theses kind of back doors. There's kind of—if you're human and you wake up and you open your eyes there is a certain set of dimensions to your experience that can be manipulated. When I was a kid I was a magician, and you learn all about these limits, that short-term memory is about this long and there's different reaction times, and if you ask people certain questions in certain ways you can control the answer. And this is just the structure of being human. To be human means that you are persuadable in every single moment. I mean the thing about magic, as an example, it’s that magic works on everybody, sleight of hand, right? It doesn'...
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One thing we don't talk about is that—it's sort of hard to talk about this—our minds have theses kind of back doors. There's kind of—if you're human and you wake up and you open your eyes there is a certain set of dimensions to your experience that can be manipulated. When I was a kid I was a magician, and you learn all about these limits, that short-term memory is about this long and there's different reaction times, and if you ask people certain questions in certain ways you can control the answer. And this is just the structure of being human. To be human means that you are persuadable in every single moment. I mean the thing about magic, as an example, it’s that magic works on everybody, sleight of hand, right? It doesn'...
