Media Studies
Keely Adler and
Media Studies
#506: Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More
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The more powerful communication technologies become, the more people will fight wars over words instead of territory. Language, when wielded at scale, is among man's most powerful weapons.
A lot of things are happening here, including the mess that’s been the 2020s, but also the combination of
a) news publisher abundance
b) media negativity bias
c) social media amplifying high-arousal negativity (eg, outrage)
turns the news into a virtual realm o... See more