Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2020-10-30
Joe Rogan & Tristan Harris: books mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience #1558
#1558 - Tristan Harris
Called the “closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience,” by The Atlantic magazine, Tristan Harris spent three years as a Google Design Ethicist developing a framework for how technology should “ethically” steer the thoughts and actions of billions of people from screens.
Tristan Harris recommended Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild and Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, and discussed Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Alone Together by Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation by Sherry Turkle, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Discussed“i talked to daniel kahneman who wrote the he's like the founder of behavioral economics he wrote the book thinking fast and slow if you know that one”
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Alone Together
Discussed“and cheri turkel um you know who's been working at mit wrote the book reclaiming conversation and alone together”
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Reclaiming Conversation
Discussed“and cheri turkel um you know who's been working at mit wrote the book reclaiming conversation and alone together”
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Bury the Chains
Recommended“there's a great book by um adam hokeshield called bury the chains which is about the british abolition of slavery in which he talks about how for the british empire”
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
Recommended“it's from the book have you read amusing ourselves death by neil postman”
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Brave New World
Discussed“but we had forgotten that alongside orwell's dark vision there was another slightly older slightly less well-known equally chilling vision of aldous huxley's brave new world contrary to common belief even among the educated huxley and orwell did not prophecy the same thing orwell warns that we will become overwhelmed overcome by an externally imposed oppression”
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Brave New World Revisited
Discussed“as huxley remarked in brave new world revisited the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Brave New World
“there are several who actually said that it convinced them not to commit suicide to have this relationship with this chatbot so it's her it's her it's the movie exactly”