Flicker: Your Brain On Movies with Jeffrey Martin Zacks x Columbia Tatone | AD 184
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The Importance of Social Psychology in Manipulation Economy
Jeff Yang: The film shows how a lot of the most negative consequences that manipulation economy aren't due to an evil scheming, but economic forces operating in the context of fast moving technology and unintended consequences. He says even as folks were building these really manipulative technologies, people were thinking about it not in terms of manipulation, but in terms of like providing helpful information or collecting valuable information that could be monetized by selling it to advertisers and stuff.Yang: My personal takeaway from it was to think of, okay, we see how powerful this is and it's potential. How can we use it for good? You know, how it's not going anywhere.
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