WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:05.839 Hey, going live, just to say I did drop the 2 00:00:06.200 --> 00:00:08.519 link to Aaron to see if you could connect to 3 00:00:08.519 --> 00:00:11.439 do a show right now. Hopefully in the near future 4 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:13.960 we'll be working with Riverside as a point of connection, 5 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:16.920 but for now still, I dropped a Jitsu link to 6 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:19.000 Aaron and there he is. 7 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:19.320 Aaron. 8 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:19.839 How you doing. 9 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:23.480 Do you hear me? Yeah? Can you hear me? I'm good, Yeah, 10 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:25.640 I hear you. It was making me like sign in 11 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:28.160 with Google, so it just took me like a little 12 00:00:28.359 --> 00:00:30.920 minute to do that. Yes, I'm here. 13 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:33.880 They're weird little things that happen like that. Anyways, you're 14 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:35.000 ready to roll right. 15 00:00:37.719 --> 00:00:43.280 Yes, I'm gonna start streaming actually on my I'm gonna 16 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:45.439 start streaming on my YouTube. Did I tell you that 17 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:47.439 that I'm doing that now now? 18 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:48.600 But pretty soon? 19 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:50.799 Was in my old old YouTube channel. 20 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:51.200 Cool. 21 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:54.920 Yeah, I'm to see if it works. It should work. Well, 22 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:57.679 you know what I'm gonna start doing. What I'm gonna 23 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:02.359 start doing in April at late is streaming onto Rumble 24 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:07.879 and I'm gonna start giving everybody Riverside links instead of uh, 25 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:10.439 you know, jitsy or any of these other things, and 26 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:13.359 they should be more stable and better for recovering recordings 27 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:17.760 even if we have internet outages and stuff. So yeah, 28 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:20.879 I think that's gonna be to our advantage, and it'll 29 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:23.079 just be an addition, you know. So everything that stands 30 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:26.200 will still stand, but then we'll have the additional riverside 31 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:28.599 and be able to send out clips and everything else. 32 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:34.879 AI assisted clips. So see how that goes. Maybe that'll help. Yeah, 33 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:38.159 Plus we'll be a rumble channel too. Now, yeah, it's 34 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:38.799 it looks like it. 35 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:44.319 It looks like it's it looks like it's working cool. Well, 36 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:47.280 it looks like the it is working out kind of 37 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:50.280 the houses or whatever. Well, hopefully they can just giving me. 38 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:53.680 Yeah, hopefully they can hear me on YouTube. And uh, 39 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:55.719 if you're ready to roll, I'll play your intro and 40 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:56.280 we'll roll. 41 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:02.480 Okay, Uh hold on, let me let me try one 42 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:06.079 thing real fast, let me sure, let me try both 43 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:06.560 us again. 44 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:08.879 We're a good okay, then I'm gonna kill my mic 45 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:09.719 and we're gonna roll. 46 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:33.479 All right, okay, cool, let's do it. The Age of ten. 47 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:43.199 You are listening to the Age of Transitions. I'm your host, 48 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:47.520 Aaron Franz, coming at you live this Friday night. I'd 49 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:53.000 be right twenty seven to twenty twenty six. My every 50 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:56.800 Friday night from the facilities of o'chelly dot com ten 51 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:00.560 pm to midnight Eastern Time. First Hour, The Age Transition, 52 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:04.439 Second Hour's Uncle the Broadcast. Thank you for listening live. 53 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:08.080 If you are, please do consider going to o'celi dot 54 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:10.800 com and saying a donation. Help Chuck and network out. 55 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:16.840 Also my website is the Age Age of Transition Missions 56 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:20.080 dot com. You can pick up the podcast there, Man's 57 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:26.000 Scientific Rise to Godhood. It's available in paperback and ebook copies. 58 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:32.560 That's my book about transhumanism. Also have the Patreon campaign. 59 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:41.159 Everybody who does sign up to the Patreon campaign and 60 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:46.400 supports that way is helping this show continue. Doing a 61 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:49.400 special series there called Looking for Truth in All the 62 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:54.599 Wrong Places where I'm watching old conspiracy culture and DVDs 63 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:00.159 and taking notes, honestly taking notes so that I can 64 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:04.599 work on a new video series that I'm planning to post. 65 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:08.159 It's gonna be an episodic series. Debating whether it should 66 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:12.159 be a long form documentary or episodic. I think the 67 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:13.840 episodes are gonna be the way to go. I can 68 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:17.079 do like single videos and just keep putting those out. 69 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:21.759 It'll be easier to do more material more often. I think, 70 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:25.680 I think it'll just work better. And the exciting thing 71 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:29.759 with all of that, these projects that I want to 72 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:33.879 work on is that I have the old the old 73 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:40.399 YouTube channel back, my old ADDTV YouTube channel is what 74 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:44.959 it started as, but the Aaron Franz YouTube channel, and 75 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:49.279 I did have the Age of Transitions video, the two 76 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:53.399 thousand and eight hour long video. It had been posted 77 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:56.759 to this channel. That wasn't the first place I posted it, 78 00:04:56.800 --> 00:04:59.279 but I did post it there. And I had my 79 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:04.360 old videodeos that I made throughout the years. Back in 80 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:06.920 the old days, really I used to do a lot 81 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:09.000 of videos and I would post them to the old 82 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:12.839 YouTube channel. All those videos are gone now. There's only 83 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:15.160 one video that I left up there, which was one 84 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:17.920 that was called why I'm Leaving YouTube. I made that 85 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:22.160 back in twenty sixteen. I took down all the other 86 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:23.879 videos I made that I'm like, look, this is why 87 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:29.160 I'm leaving. Well, I'm back for better and for worse. 88 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:35.839 I'm back with this channel and I'm live streaming right now. 89 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:40.439 So I am live streaming the Age of Transitions podcast. 90 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:44.600 So I'm going to use the YouTube channel for that. 91 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:47.439 There's gonna be the video versions of the Age of 92 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:52.480 Transitions podcasts now available there, and in addition to those 93 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:54.839 other videos that I want to post, those are coming later. 94 00:05:54.959 --> 00:05:56.879 There will probably be more of the live streams than 95 00:05:56.920 --> 00:06:03.519 those actually actually, but it's something different, it's something good, 96 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:07.879 So you can find if you're interested in watching a 97 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:10.680 video version of the Age of Transitions podcast that is 98 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:15.160 now available on the YouTube channel. It's back. But I 99 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:18.240 did want to talk about the old video, the one 100 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:21.040 video I had remaining until today. Now there's gonna be 101 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:24.399 two videos once this live stream is up. But the 102 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:29.519 old video titled why I'm Leaving YouTube twenty sixteen, and 103 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:33.040 I list off reasons. It's just me talk. So when 104 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:36.600 I was living in Orange, California, i made that and 105 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:39.360 I still have hair in the video, so you know, 106 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:45.120 it's pretty old the video. The reasons I listed for 107 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:53.560 leaving YouTube at that time were primarily because my videos, 108 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:59.240 especially the Age of Transitions video, but a couple others, 109 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:05.759 they were getting advertisements put on top of them without 110 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:09.399 me being able to do anything about it, and then 111 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:15.439 the monetization from those ads wasn't going to me, it 112 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:19.439 was going to whoever the copyright owner of whatever the 113 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:26.120 supposed copyright stuff that got into my videos was. And 114 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:28.639 typically I'm usually pretty good with copyright stuff, but with 115 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:31.399 the Age of Transitions video, I did intersperse different clips 116 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:35.279 of different stuff in there, so it was really weird. 117 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:38.920 At one point it did say who the copyright holders were, 118 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:42.839 and they were really weird names of whoever it was 119 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:47.319 and whatever the material was. It was really obscure stuff. 120 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:51.519 But whatever they were, the ads that were on the 121 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:55.120 Age of Transitions videos they were getting, however, many cents 122 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:57.759 from it, so it was just annoyed me. Like I 123 00:07:57.879 --> 00:08:00.279 first of all, I did not want any ads ads 124 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:03.560 on my videos. I did not want ads, but I 125 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:06.800 didn't have the control to take them off of these 126 00:08:06.879 --> 00:08:11.439 videos because the other copyright owners just automatically had them 127 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:12.879 on there and there's nothing I could do about it, 128 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:15.879 and that really really annoyed me. I'm like, that's enough 129 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:18.639 of this. I don't have to be on here. So 130 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:22.120 that was the reason why I left YouTube in twenty sixteen. 131 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:28.680 I think it's a good one now that the years 132 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:35.879 twenty twenty six a decade later, things are different in 133 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:40.039 the YouTube landscape, for better and for worse. As we 134 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:54.440 were saying, I did mention a few shows back how 135 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:57.360 it would be of the history of YouTube and the 136 00:08:57.440 --> 00:09:06.360 various change to me a link to that three, because 137 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:10.480 it has gone just from the early days of pre 138 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:18.360 acquisition on the website with its its own end of days, 139 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:21.240 and then Google came in and progressively things got worse 140 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:29.600 and worse and worse. Imagine that. But yeah, the reasons 141 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:35.360 why YouTube was bad when I left in twice sixteen 142 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:41.799 are different now done this at all or I should? 143 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:44.519 It's the same debate on whether I should be making 144 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:49.480 any content online at all, or why anybody should. It's 145 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:53.519 tough and I it's it's I. It's a constant back 146 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:57.639 and forth with me of is this worth it? But 147 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:03.440 the winner that internal debate is always yes, it is 148 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:05.720 worth doing this, and yes we will continue doing this 149 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:12.799 despite all the horrors of what we're doing in the process. 150 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:20.039 And we want a simple to simplify the reason as 151 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:27.440 to why YouTube is bad these day days, I think 152 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:33.039 we could single out the factor of the algorithm being 153 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:41.320 in control of all content throughout the entire site. Now, 154 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:47.600 YouTube is not it's not original. It's not the only 155 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:51.519 social media platform that does this. They all do it. 156 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:59.200 They all employ their own proprietary algorithms on their platforms 157 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:03.480 control how the whole thing operates. We know this now, 158 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:08.480 this is just common knowledge. Algorithms on these platforms are 159 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:11.799 not new. However, they keep getting more and more sophisticated, 160 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:16.919 and they become more and more important. Not just to 161 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:18.960 the back end of like how the site works, but 162 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:22.840 now they've crept the algorithm has crept its way all 163 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:31.799 the way to the forefront. We're not talking about Twitch, 164 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:34.039 We're not talking about Rumble, we're not talking about anything. 165 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:37.360 We're gonna just keep it to YouTube for now, Okay, 166 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:41.360 to simplify things, although we could be talking about those others, 167 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:47.200 but throw it aside now on YouTube. What I mean 168 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:49.279 when I say that the algorithm is not just on 169 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:52.639 the back end but has moved to the front, is 170 00:11:52.679 --> 00:12:02.360 that content, whether consciously done or not, content And honestly, 171 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:07.559 mostly it's consciously done by creators. Content is crafted to 172 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:13.039 serve the algorithm explicitly, in explicit terms. And this is 173 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:16.559 where it is consciously done, not just subconscious. People explicitly 174 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:23.399 make their media content. Creators are creating their content and 175 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:27.399 the way that they're doing it is in service to 176 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:39.559 the algorithm. YouTube's algorithm. And if you go onto YouTube, 177 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:42.120 they're saying, do you want five hundred thousand subscribers in 178 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:42.480 a month? 179 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:43.000 Do this? 180 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:47.559 The guy's making those videos, they all you watch any 181 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:49.600 of those videos, They were like, the algorithm is doing this, 182 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:51.759 it's doing this. You have to set these settings. You 183 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:53.159 have to do this. You have to make sure you 184 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:55.679 make your title like this. Your content has to be 185 00:12:55.759 --> 00:12:58.879 made with this. Make sure you don't do this, don't 186 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:00.960 do that, don't do this this, don't do this, this 187 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.279 is this that or this, this or that? Did you 188 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:05.919 get that list of things that it's gives They give 189 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:09.000 this specific list of things that you are to do 190 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:14.559 and not to do, and every single one of those 191 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:19.200 things is in service to the algorithm, because if you 192 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:26.360 don't do that, you become in You by default are invisible. 193 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:30.440 You will not be found on YouTube. The way that 194 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:34.600 the platform works now is much different than it was 195 00:13:34.759 --> 00:13:38.639 back in twenty sixteen, and certainly back when it was 196 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:42.399 in like two thousand and four, two thousand and three 197 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:45.960 that the site started, I think, but you better believe 198 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:54.039 it's way different than that. But yeah, it's so explicitly 199 00:13:54.840 --> 00:14:00.279 we are serving the algorithm. Everybody knows this common knowledge age. 200 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:04.879 There's many videos on the subject matter of this of 201 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:07.080 what you are to do and what you're not to do. 202 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:16.159 And what's really fascinating throughout this whole uh muleau that 203 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:24.159 we're in online as content creators and content consumers, both 204 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:34.080 of us. What's interesting is how little this is called 205 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:39.240 into question like it is. I mean, don't get me wrong, 206 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:42.120 I'm not the only guy who's complaining about algorithms and 207 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:46.000 what they're doing to us. That's beyond the stretch of 208 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:49.440 the truth. However, you know, through all this talk of 209 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:52.240 we have to do this, your content has to be this, 210 00:14:53.039 --> 00:14:55.799 what do you even thinking if you're if you're not 211 00:14:55.840 --> 00:15:01.480 doing these things, you're just you're wasting your time. It 212 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:11.960 just seems like where is the conversation of I'm struggling 213 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:14.600 to start the conversation. I'm like, well, what is the alternative? 214 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:18.440 There is no alternative anymore, that's the thing. And I 215 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:22.320 guess this is kind of with the term alternative that 216 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:25.879 harkens back to alternative media. It's the same word, right. 217 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:30.799 That's the world that I kind of crawled up out 218 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:34.360 of as a content creator was what was at one 219 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:39.679 point described as the alternative media. Well, there are no 220 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:45.360 alternatives anymore. If you're online, you're on these social media platforms, 221 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:47.080 you have to be. If you're a content creator, you 222 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:51.720 have to be. And if you are content creating on 223 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:59.759 these platforms, you have to serve the algorithm or you're 224 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:06.320 So that's why there really isn't a conversation. I guess, right, 225 00:16:08.120 --> 00:16:13.200 because because uh, you know, it's it's a dead end. 226 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:15.559 It's like, well, it's a non conversation. It's like, if 227 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:20.600 you don't like the algorithms, go away. I guess right. 228 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:24.879 And there's a there's no there's no option there. You 229 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:30.039 just have to deal with it. And I don't know 230 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:32.000 if I really want to get deep into all the 231 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:34.600 things that the algorithm does. But I mean, you have 232 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:40.320 to be super niche and you have to always be 233 00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:46.039 talking about particularly you always have to be like, like 234 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:53.759 on topic. It's really fascinating how the algorithm is coercing 235 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:59.200 us into creating this weird online super ego for ourselves 236 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:03.320 that we must make maintain at all costs. And if 237 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:06.680 we deviate, if we have some sort of original thought, 238 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:10.319 that makes us appear as though we're not the same 239 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:16.359 exact person anymore. That's a big problem because wait a minute, 240 00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:22.880 this is the channel about baking cakes with children's easy 241 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:25.920 bake ovens. And if you ever make any other content 242 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:28.960 that's outside of that, what, No, you can't even do 243 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:33.079 a video about and a regular oven that you use 244 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:35.720 in your kitchen, like an actual size oven, that's not 245 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:38.720 a toy. That would just ruin your channel. What were 246 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:43.079 your thinking? You did the latest LG oven a review 247 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:46.079 of it. What were you thinking? You're outside your niche 248 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:53.000 And and you know, this is interesting coming from the 249 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:56.680 guy whose material is pretty super niche. Actually I kind 250 00:17:56.680 --> 00:18:00.519 of was from the beginning. I was doing weird canspiracy 251 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:07.119 culture content about specifically the topic of transhumanism and converging 252 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:11.799 technologies and how they are, you know, how they fit 253 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:16.160 into conspiracy culture. That this is Anybody selling this idea 254 00:18:16.440 --> 00:18:22.440 is in on a transhumanist agenda, so to speak. You know, 255 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:28.079 so I ought to be praising this. I ought to be. 256 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:31.599 I mean, I have all people kind of seem like 257 00:18:31.640 --> 00:18:34.519 I fit the bill for what the algorithm wants. I 258 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:40.279 got super specific weird topic that I cover, So I 259 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:43.960 so I'm convincing myself that this is all good. Actually, 260 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:47.000 so I guess this is all a good thing. So 261 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:49.839 just forget all that I complaining I might have been 262 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:52.240 doing at the beginning of the show. There, I take 263 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:54.359 it all back. It's all good. This is gonna be great. 264 00:18:54.359 --> 00:18:58.319 I can't wait to make content again. That's gonna be exciting. 265 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:03.319 And yeah, no, in all honesty, it will be it'll 266 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:05.440 be cool to have the video version. We'll see what 267 00:19:05.480 --> 00:19:08.839 we can do, and it'll be good just to make 268 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:13.839 videos again. But I am you know me, if if 269 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:16.640 I if I get an idea, I'm gonna do it. 270 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:19.759 It's like, if something is inspiring and I think it 271 00:19:19.799 --> 00:19:22.039 in any way fits into the age of transitions, I'm 272 00:19:22.039 --> 00:19:24.920 just gonna make it if I'm able to put it 273 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:31.599 out there. So I just it seems like through all 274 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:38.160 the service to the algorithm, that just the creative process. 275 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:43.599 It's it's not the same and and and and the 276 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:47.160 way that uh, the way that content works too, that 277 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:51.079 that it's fed by the algorithm. It's it's always about 278 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:52.880 new stuff. You have to keep it new, new, new, 279 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:59.319 new new new, So you have to keep making different things. 280 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:04.400 But I'm not gonna get in here and complain about 281 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:08.680 all the different reasons why YouTube might be annoying. Now 282 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:16.440 we do have to realize how far along we really 283 00:20:16.519 --> 00:20:19.079 are though, when it comes to all of this stuff, 284 00:20:20.279 --> 00:20:28.640 the YouTube, the content creation, making videos online, and yeah, 285 00:20:28.759 --> 00:20:37.359 just how much different things are now. And we have 286 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:41.279 to understand with this concept of the algorithm is shaping 287 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:48.599 the content what that does in terms of if we're 288 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:56.720 talking about the concept of medium manipulation now in conspiracy culture. 289 00:20:57.240 --> 00:21:04.119 In prior years, the concept of media manipulation revolved around 290 00:21:06.200 --> 00:21:13.160 the idea that there is a controlling, dominant minority of 291 00:21:13.200 --> 00:21:20.400 people who have gained access and control ownership over the 292 00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:31.359 mainstream media channels, and through ownership of those they sway 293 00:21:31.720 --> 00:21:38.960 public opinion and they manipulate narratives in the to direct 294 00:21:39.119 --> 00:21:44.799 the public consciousness forward with different agendas. And it's not 295 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:48.519 that that was never true. It was, it is true, 296 00:21:49.920 --> 00:21:52.079 and it's not that it's not true now it is. 297 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:55.599 And in fact, if we're talking about media consolidation, that 298 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:59.240 only gets worse and worse all the time, the same 299 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:05.799 few people gobbling up more and more different sorts of media. 300 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:08.680 Old and Neil, I'm always talking about this on the 301 00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:12.720 show Ellison. Ellison is in the news. And now with 302 00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:17.680 the Netflix and the Warner Brothers and strong arming his 303 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:21.680 way into the Warner Brothers acquisition, Paramount and his son. 304 00:22:24.440 --> 00:22:29.880 So if we want to look at the old alternative 305 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:34.720 take on media manipulation, is it was correct. It still is. 306 00:22:35.920 --> 00:22:39.799 But on top of that, there's another layer of media 307 00:22:39.920 --> 00:22:46.480 manipulation now and it's becoming more and more autonomous all 308 00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:52.480 the time. And that would just be the machine aspect 309 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:59.440 of this, the engineered back end technological algorithmic side to media. 310 00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:06.720 Now that media is moving into the digital space more 311 00:23:06.880 --> 00:23:13.359 and more every passing second, the old analog ways of 312 00:23:13.440 --> 00:23:18.079 doing things are being pushed further and further into the 313 00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:25.799 rearview mirror. The more that things like the algorithm, just 314 00:23:26.279 --> 00:23:30.680 through a matter of course, do take control over the 315 00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:34.759 entire thing. And so that's why you start seeing all 316 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:39.920 these different niche channels of the gurus telling you how 317 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:42.359 to serve the algorithm. Of course you do, because that's 318 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:46.680 the name of the game. Now. So control over media 319 00:23:46.920 --> 00:23:51.920 is being perfected in the same way that technique itself 320 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:57.400 is perfected. And I say that as Jacques Jacquelo explains 321 00:23:57.400 --> 00:23:59.680 that in his book The Technological Society. So if you 322 00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:04.480 read that, you know what I mean. Technique and if 323 00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:07.400 you haven't, I guess I'll just you know, try to 324 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:12.720 explain that real quick technique is essentially just technology itself. 325 00:24:13.880 --> 00:24:17.000 The act of a technique is just a way of 326 00:24:17.039 --> 00:24:22.880 getting a particular task done, and technique is expressed through 327 00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:26.279 technology because technology is the means by which to do 328 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:30.640 all these various tasks better and better. You make new technologies. 329 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:35.480 Technology is technique. So as time goes on, the technique 330 00:24:35.799 --> 00:24:43.039 keeps perfecting, It keeps getting more and more there's perfecting itself. 331 00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:47.400 So there's almost like a logic to it, like the 332 00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:50.680 process of the perfection of technique is this not ending thing. 333 00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:54.720 It keeps going in the direction of being more and 334 00:24:54.759 --> 00:25:03.599 more efficient, and so me yeah, absolutely is a technique 335 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:10.680 and that's what's happening. It's the technological side of media, 336 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:17.839 the digital space. The back end of it keeps getting 337 00:25:17.880 --> 00:25:26.880 more and more complex, yes, but it keeps being developed 338 00:25:27.759 --> 00:25:35.440 to perfect itself until it and it I don't know 339 00:25:35.440 --> 00:25:38.240 if there is a point that this happened happens, but 340 00:25:38.559 --> 00:25:43.079 just really all the while what's going on is technique 341 00:25:43.119 --> 00:25:51.119 is perfecting itself to its own ends. And so this 342 00:25:51.440 --> 00:26:06.759 definitely fits into the AI conversation Autonomous systems, all things automated, 343 00:26:06.839 --> 00:26:14.799 all things AI is almost like the expression of this 344 00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:19.039 technical process and technique perfecting itself to its own ends, 345 00:26:19.680 --> 00:26:22.440 getting to the point where it begins to be able 346 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:28.000 to literally perfect itself. It doesn't need the technicians doing 347 00:26:28.039 --> 00:26:34.400 it in the laboratories anymore. It is its own technician, 348 00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:43.880 and it writes its own code, It alters and edits itself, 349 00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:49.240 all for the purpose of becoming better at whatever it 350 00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:53.720 is it's doing. Now, what is it doing? What is 351 00:26:53.880 --> 00:26:59.799 media doing to us? Well, that's not a simple answer. 352 00:26:59.839 --> 00:27:03.480 It's doing any number of things. It's doing a whole lot. 353 00:27:04.599 --> 00:27:10.880 It's doing a number on us. Even if you want 354 00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:13.960 to just say it's there for entertainment, to keep us 355 00:27:14.599 --> 00:27:19.400 entertained and nothing more, that gets real interesting, real quick, 356 00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:22.359 because if we think about from a technical standpoint, it's like, 357 00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:26.279 how do you best perfect a technique of keeping somebody 358 00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:33.640 entertained well income. In the social media wizards, they've done 359 00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:38.279 study after study to perfect the technique of their platforms, 360 00:27:39.559 --> 00:27:43.880 and everybody knows this story well of ways to essentially 361 00:27:44.079 --> 00:27:47.359 make their products addictive so that people never leave. They 362 00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:52.119 keep pressing the like button to release the serotonin. The 363 00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:57.039 dopamine rush in your brain, and they scientifically study all 364 00:27:57.119 --> 00:28:03.000 this stuff, so it's a biofeedback loop. They have us 365 00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:08.480 on that they full well know about and exploit for 366 00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:14.839 what to keep us entertained, But they have their own 367 00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:20.960 ulterior motives, obviously ad revenue and things more nefarious than that. 368 00:28:23.720 --> 00:28:32.200 So it's pretty interesting to think about the ways that 369 00:28:34.359 --> 00:28:42.960 the media landscape is changing, and not just that it 370 00:28:43.079 --> 00:28:47.400 is changing, but absolutely how it's changing, and how might 371 00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:56.200 media be fitting into this story of autonomy and autonomous systems. 372 00:28:56.799 --> 00:28:59.559 How does the algorithm fit into this that we know 373 00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:01.880 is there and that we have to know it's there, 374 00:29:01.960 --> 00:29:10.680 we're serving it. At what point does the algorithm I 375 00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:13.359 don't think it's ever going to become sentient. I think 376 00:29:13.400 --> 00:29:16.440 that's the wrong way to think about it. But at 377 00:29:16.480 --> 00:29:24.440 one point does it really just become fully automated? And 378 00:29:24.480 --> 00:29:28.039 then what are we even doing? Has it already happened 379 00:29:28.079 --> 00:29:30.359 and to what extent has it already happened? These are 380 00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:34.799 difficult questions even answer. At this point it starts getting 381 00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:41.799 into philosophical territory, just trying to pick apart what social 382 00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:45.400 media platforms are now, what they are, how they work. 383 00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:49.759 It's absolutely an esoteric study because we're not allowed to 384 00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:56.319 know what the algorithm is. Once again, proprietary property there 385 00:29:56.759 --> 00:30:02.319 property of the alphabet corporation. We're talking about YouTube, we're 386 00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:06.160 not allowed to look at it. I guess that's all. Well, 387 00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:10.319 I'm good, But at the same time, it's a little 388 00:30:10.359 --> 00:30:18.039 disturbing too, and it does sets the stage for the 389 00:30:19.359 --> 00:30:24.440 existence of a de facto priesthood. Those would be the 390 00:30:24.440 --> 00:30:31.799 ones that know the answers to all these esoteric questions 391 00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:35.359 you might have on this topic. How does the algorithm work, 392 00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:39.319 what's it doing in this instance? 393 00:30:39.359 --> 00:30:39.720 And that. 394 00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:46.559 Why is it that this particular YouTuber is doing so 395 00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:52.079 well speaking about the algorithm though, like what did they 396 00:30:52.119 --> 00:30:57.440 do that appeased it? And so the priests would have 397 00:30:57.480 --> 00:31:03.119 the knowledge of they would have the answers to that, 398 00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:09.200 or at least the best answers that one could have. 399 00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:14.640 As esoteric topics tend to be, they get to be 400 00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:22.359 a little difficult to pin down sometimes. But also the 401 00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:28.559