Echo Chambers; Covid Lockdowns; Amazon & Antitrust; Safety Culture

Bill Facciolo is a Developer, Computer Scientist, and an amateur meteorologist.

Key Links From Our Conversation:

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180402-the-fascinating-world-of-instagrams-virtual-celebrities

2. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/stretching-theory/201809/how-many-decisions-do-we-make-each-day%3famp

3. https://www.google.com/amp/s/gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-dont-be-evil-from-1826153393/amp

(Full Links List is in the Shownotes on https://www.trendifier.com)

TIME STAMPS

0:29 - 8:44 ~ Mentality in your 20s; Imposter Syndrome/Success; Millennials’ worldview

8:44 - 14:49 ~ “You don’t know what you don’t know”; Internet 3.0, AI, and Virtual Influencers

14:49 - 25:49 ~ Fake news and the ripple effects it has on culture; Impressions, engagement, & subscription psychology; Psychological conditioning on social media

25:49 - 41:48 ~ “Thought Bubbles” & “Echo Chambers”; Negativity in culture and in humanity itself; Social media and happiness

41:48 - 1:04:58 ~ The Bin Laden Raid & Twitter; The Court of Public Opinion & the real courts; the 24 hour news cycle; Disruptors & Podcasting like Call Her Daddy (CHD); Greg Oden, Kevin Durant, & Risk vs. Reward; Alcoa CEO Paul O’Neill’s marriage of data and humanity; the future of people vs. data

1:04:58 - 1:13:58 ~ Companies’ “negative” consumer experiences driven by profits; Capitalism: a great system with flaws

1:13:58 - 1:20:00 ~ The point where data becomes the employee and not the human

1:20:00 - 1:28:22 ~ Julian tells a story of going to an Amazon AWS Loft in NYC

1:28:22 - 1:35:14 ~ The need for Federal Anti-Trust Suits (Amazon, Google); Google’s algorithm & machine learning

1:35:14 - 1:51:28 ~ Julian brings up the movie Ex-Machina; Google; Why the Google Tagline “Don’t be evil” is problematic; Government regulations due to “bad apples”; Jared Dillian’s quote about Lehman Brothers

1:51:28 - 1:56:48 ~ Bill uses the three laws of entropy and thermodynamics to explain everything

1:56:48 - 2:04:43 ~ Julian talks about the early days of the US and how fewer choices” created fewer decision points and fewer laws; Columbine & Tec-9’s

2:04:43 - 2:12:06 ~ FDR & The New Deal; Covid and how we’re constantly moving the goalposts on guidelines and regulations

2:12:06 - 2:27:18 ~ Trump vs. Fauci on Covid; Bias and interest in the context of decision-making and messaging

2:27:18 - 2:37:27 ~ Julian explains how our societal attitude towards self-driving cars actually can tell us a lot about our mentality towards Covid; Bill talks about knee-jerk reactions the US has had in the past like post-9/11

2:37:27 - 2:42:25 ~ Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff’s “The Coddling of The American Mind” and how Covid is a result of “Safety Culture”

2:42:25 - 2:57:58 ~ Using the Scientific method approach towards Covid-19; Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Cryptocurrency

2:57:58 - END ~ Julian & Bill sign off

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