{"id":5621,"date":"2017-06-25T21:11:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T04:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=5621"},"modified":"2017-06-25T21:11:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T04:11:49","slug":"persuasion-control-a-dark-bracing-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/25\/persuasion-control-a-dark-bracing-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Persuasion &#038; Control&#8221;: A dark, bracing podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLike a meeting room that simply seeks to prolong the meeting\u201d\u2014so says writer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0300215126?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwsamharris03-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=0300215126\">Zeynep Tufekci<\/a>\u00a0of Facebook, YouTube, and other sites that seek to maximize their command of your attention. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samharris.org\/podcast\/item\/persuasion-and-control\">this conversation with Sam Harris<\/a> she explains, among other things&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>how machine learning draws us towards the edges of discourse (because that\u2019s simply what we\u2019re most likely to click)<\/li>\n<li>how political campaigns can (and now do) target specific people (e.g. black men in Philadelphia in 2016) in order to depress their votes<\/li>\n<li>how marketers could detect a manic-depressive person\u2019s manic upswing &amp; comp him airline tickets to Vegas, knowing that he\u2019s most vulnerable to blowing all his money<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\u2026and more. It\u2019s fascinating, dark stuff that should give pause to all of us\u2014especially those of us who merrily work to extract more &amp; more insights into individuals, in order to better shape their behavior (for <em>good,<\/em>\u00a0we swear\u2026).<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sam Harris speaks with Zeynep Tufekci about \u201csurveillance capitalism,\u201d the Trump campaign\u2019s use of Facebook, AI-enabled marketing, the health of the press, Wikileaks, ransomware attacks, and other topics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Merry f\u2019ing Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NewImage-23.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"396\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLike a meeting room that simply seeks to prolong the meeting\u201d\u2014so says writer\u00a0Zeynep Tufekci\u00a0of Facebook, YouTube, and other sites that seek to maximize their command of your attention. In this conversation with Sam Harris she explains, among other things&#8230; how machine learning draws us towards the edges of discourse (because that\u2019s simply what we\u2019re most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5622,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions\/5622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}