The Truth of Social Media || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Social Media: The Algo wants to fool you, Beat the Algo || Acharya Prashant, with UC Berkeley (2025)

Transcript

00:00The interest of the social media company lies in maximizing your screen time so that you can be shown the maximum number of advertisements.

00:09That's how they make their money. And that will have a great bearing on what becomes of our species.

00:15Because unlike other species, we are not just our bodies. We are conscious people. We are more mental than physical beings.

00:22If the mind itself gets influenced and corrupted, then it's as if the entire species has been changed for the worse.

00:30So you have to ask, if this were a real life person sitting in front of me, how would I relate to him? What questions would I ask her?

00:37How would I try to decode his agenda and penetrate and see what he or she wants from me?

00:43Does this person have any underlying principle? And there would always be a principle.

00:48And if you are attentive enough, you would decipher that principle.

00:51If you find the principle sublime enough, then be with that person. Otherwise simply block or even report.