Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Brooks: belief
20 Aug 2025 Conversations with Tyler David Brooks on Audacity, AI, and the American Psyche (Live at 92NY)
“I can say it may have weakened the power of the mainstream media and created more fringe, but I think what influences people is their direct lived experience, not so much media.”
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- David Brooks
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- 20 Aug 2025
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…“How does a greater adoption of AI influence political party realignment?” Hmm. I’m not so much of the belief that technology influences that stuff as other people are. I don’t think social media has . . . It’s had a negative effect on society in all sorts of ways. I can say it may have weakened the power of the mainstream media and created more fringe, but I think what influences people is their direct lived experience, not so much media. Now, I don’t even mean social media; I mean all media. I was at a conference — many years ago, decades ago — of sexologists. You would have felt right at home. [laughter] You would have been right at home. I knew —…
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