#319 — The Digital Multiverse

Sam Harris speaks with David Auerbach about the problematic
structure of online networks. They discuss the tradeoffs between
liberty and cooperation, the impossibility of fighting
misinformation, bottom-up vs top-down influences, recent
developments in AI, deepfakes, the instability of skepticism, the
future of social media, the weaknesses of LLMs, breaking up
digital bubbles, online identity and privacy, and other topics.


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