N.B: Social media by their own design are such that if I don't keep publishing content, I will fade into oblivion.

This constant content creation goal really didn't sit right with me and I have hence started to focus on doing courses and making projects and moved content creations to Sundays only so expect very little content compared to a few years ago.

"I'm Being Trained and So Are You - Barry's Economics" - One of the last videos I watched before Video Entertainment Detox

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I am being trained, and so are you. So,
about a month ago, I posted a video that
got a quarter of a million views in 2
days. And I know that in YouTube terms,
those numbers put me somewhere between
like a regional story about, I don't
know, flooding and a poodle that fell
off a surfboard. But, to me, it was
real. But, ever since,
there's been a deeply uncool part of my
brain that just keeps going to me
obsessively,
"Do it again, Barry. Do it again. Make
Make the machine go bang bang. Maybe a
hotter take. Have you Have you got a
hotter take? Maybe something hot?" It's
something that I recognize that's built
into this system
by people who are very good at their
jobs. Because right now, in Silicon
Valley, there's a man in flip-flops and
a clicker that's literally just saying
out loud to me, "Good boy. And you're a
good boy. Yes, you are. Get more views.
You carry on doing it. Yes, you are.
You're a good boy." while sipping at
Huel.
And it's the same manipulations if
you're watching videos. Your timeline,
your news feed, your Reels feed. I am
being trained, and so are you. So, over
the next, however long this video is, I
want to show you the science of exactly
how that training works and what it does
to people that are caught inside of it,
like us.
In 1938, a psychologist called B. F.
Skinner
put a rat in a box. And that doesn't
sound extraordinary, but it changed the
way we see the world. The box had a
lever. When the rat pressed the lever,
food appeared. The rat learned to press
the lever because even rats understand
the principles of Deliveroo. But,
Skinner didn't just test one way of
rewarding the rats, right? He tested
several ways. Sometimes, the food came
every single time the rat pressed the
lever. Sometimes, it came every fifth
press. Sometimes, it came randomly with
no pattern whatsoever. And he measured
which schedule produced the most
obsessive-compulsive,
impossible-to-stop lever pressing.
And the answer was,
random rewards. What Skinner called a
variable ratio reinforcement schedule.
Because when the rat never knew which
press would deliver the food, when the
reward was unpredictable, it just kept
pressing endlessly, frantically. It
couldn't stop. Even when the food
stopped coming entirely, press press,
press press press. Skinner himself was
reportedly disturbed by how effective
this type of reward was. And the
research was so reliable, so repeatable,
so devastating in its implications, that
he spent years worrying about what it
meant for human society. And to be fair,
he should have worried more. Cuz the
rat's lever only dispenses food, right?
Cut to 2026, and our levers dispense
food, status, validation, a sense of
meaning, and occasional abuse from
strangers. Oh, and if you're lucky, very
lucky, a brand deal from a mattress
company. Because if you post a video,
sometimes it gets 2,000 views, sometimes
8,000, and sometimes, if the algorithmic
gods are feeling generous,
400,000 views, a million views. And
you'll never know which press is going
to deliver the food. You'll never know
why one video flies and another video
dies. You just keep pressing. Like, I've
spent hours trying to reverse engineer
what makes videos fly.
And the best idea I have at the moment
is phases of the moon.
And it's the [clears throat] same
manipulations if you're watching videos.
Your timeline, your news feed, your
Reels feed. Sometimes, it's a great
video, sometimes it's one you don't
like, but you keep scrolling for that
hit, the one that really gets you, the
one that makes you laugh, the one that
entertains you, that makes you forget
about things, that gives you something
to think about, that just hit of
dopamine. Because we are all the rat.
Instagram, TikTok, YouTube.
They're not platforms. They are Skinner
boxes with better graphic design, but a
much worse privacy policy.
>> The main thing is what we what we call
schedules of reinforcement.
Reinforcement is what the layman calls
reward, and you can schedule it uh so
that a reward occurs every now and then
when a pigeon does something. We usually
use a response with a pigeon pecking a
little disc at a little spot in the
wall.
You don't reinforce every time, you're
every perhaps every tenth time, or
perhaps only once every minute or
something like that. And there is a good
example of how you can move from uh
the uh the pigeon to the human case
because one of the one of the schedules
is very effective with with rats or
pigeons is what we call a variable ratio
schedule, and that is at the heart of
all gambling devices and has the same
effect. The pigeon can become a
pathological gambler just as a person
can. People gamble because of the
schedule of the reinforcement that
follows. And this is true of all
gamblings as they all have variable
ratios built into them. So, what we've
learned from the pigeon, it made it
possible to interpret this vast field
very effectively. Because the variable
ratio reinforcement schedule that
Skinner identified in 1938 as the single
most addictive pattern ever discovered
in behavioral science is now the
business model of every major social
media company on Earth. But, they have
way more data to design that lever and
make it even more addictive. And that's
what they do to viewers.
But, what they do to creators, huh,
[sighs]
is even more sadistic.
>> [music]
>> So, Nicholas Perry was a classically
[music] trained violinist, soft-spoken,
thoughtful, vegan. He dreamed of
Broadway.
Look at him there.
Isn't he a sweet-looking lad? The hope
in those eyes.
>> [snorts]
>> So, in 2014,
>> [music]
>> he started a YouTube channel sharing
recipes and playing music, like gentle,
wholesome stuff. You know, green
smoothies [music]
and violin pieces.
And of course,
nobody watched it.
Why would you watch that?
All right, Barry.
Then one day, just for a joke, he tried
something called mukbang.
>> Well, hello, my little sloth. Sit down.
We're going to eat together. I'm going
to think happy thoughts right now and
show you
>> [sighs and gasps]
>> the food. So,
which is a genre of video originating
from South Korea where a creator eats a
huge quantity of food on camera while
talking.
And his first mukbang got 50,000 views
in 2 weeks, more than he'd ever gotten
before combined.
The Skinner lever had delivered food.
Literally, in this case.
>> Sushi. The algorithm had said,
essentially,
"Mate,
put the violin down.
What if, instead of playing Mozart or
something, you ate a whole family bucket
of KFC while having a
breakdown?" So, what do you think
happened next?
>> This video's going to be really
interesting, but it is what it is. This
is my life.
And my life is what it is. If people
don't like it, they don't have to click
it. You clicked it, so it means you're
somehow interested. Why? I don't know.
Over 8 years, Nicholas Perry gained over
250 lb. He developed sleep apnea. He
fractured his ribs. He became disabled
and bought a mobility scooter. He filmed
himself crying and eating 20,000 calorie
meals three times a day across five
separate YouTube channels.
>> [crying and screaming]
>> Subscribe right now. I'm watching you,
and I'll I'm literally I'll get notified
when people subscribe here. So, I'll be
able to see
Oh my gosh, this is a
not enough food. This is not enough
food. I'm going to starve. And here's a
direct quote from him that should keep
every single creator awake at night.
"They like when I'm sick. They like when
I'm upset, and they like when I'm hyper,
so I just give them that."
He knew.
He understood the mechanism perfectly.
He could describe it in plain English,
and he still could not stop. Because
knowing you're in a Skinner box doesn't
get you out of the Skinner box, as
anyone with a phone will tell you.
Sorry.
Oh, sorry. I'll put that down.
I won't be sick.
Oh, sorry. Yeah, this one. I I won't
touch it.
Um yeah, I won't be sick.
Yeah, but sorry.
Well, I think it's
Yeah,
>> [snorts]
>> all good.
Oh, uh actually,
Yeah. Okay, cool.
Got that. I'll put it away. Yeah,
something like that. I'll probably put
it away.
I actually there's one more thing I'll
say.
Yep. Yep, cool. Yep. Sorry. Sorry, yeah.
Uh oh, sorry. Yeah, I should um Cuz the
reinforcement schedule, it doesn't care
whether you understand it. It works
anyway.
That's what made Skinner so absolutely
petrified of his own research. Like,
it's not that people were weak or that
easy to condition. It works absolutely
regardless of intelligence, regardless
of insight, and regardless of
self-awareness. That's what makes it
terrifying. So, why can't creators see
the change happening in themselves? If
the Skinner box is making them seem more
and more extreme, or more and more
chasing the algorithm, or getting
overweight, or just literally, "Oh,
suddenly I'm in a mobility scooter." Am
I making these choices? So, what is
happening to themselves? In 2012, Diana
Tamir and Jason Mitchell at Harvard ran
five studies published in the
Proceedings of National Academy of
Sciences to answer a deceptively simple
question about why do humans spend so
much time talking about themselves. And
we really do. Research shows that we
devote 30 to 40% of everything we say to
telling other people about our own
experiences. Like on social media it's
even higher. Upwards of 80% of posts are
just announcement about what people are
thinking or feeling right now.
Awks, which if you think about it is
remarkable, right? Cuz nobody asked.
Nobody needs to know and yet we can't
stop. So Tamir and Mitchell put people
in an fMRI brain scanner and gave them a
choice. Answer questions about yourself,
your opinions, your personality, what
you think about things, or answer
questions about someone else. And they
watched what happened in the brain.
When people talked about themselves, two
specific brain regions lit up. The
nucleus accumbens and the ventral
tegmental area. And those aren't just
random structures. They're the core of
the mesolimbic dopamine system. The very
same reward pathway activated by food
and sex and by addictive drugs.
The brain was treating self-disclosure,
the act of sharing what you think and
feel as a reward on the same
neurological level as eating when you're
hungry. But here's the detail that
really makes it interesting. In a
follow-up experiment, they gave
participants a choice. Answer questions
about yourself or answer questions about
someone else, but they attached
different amounts of money to each
option. Sometimes you get paid more to
answer about someone else.
And what they found was that people were
willing to forego money for the
opportunity to talk about themselves
instead. The brain valued
self-disclosure so highly that it would
sacrifice financial reward to get it.
Now think about what happens when you
post a video and a million people watch
you share your thoughts. Every signal to
the brain is saying people are listening
to you talk about yourself. It's It's
applause without eye contact, right?
Which is psychologically confusing but
quite addictive. That is the nucleus
accumbens firing not once but thousands
of times across days and weeks. You're
not just getting attention, you are
getting a neurochemical reward on a
scale that Tamir and Mitchell's
participants in a quiet lab in Harvard
could never have imagined. But the
dopamine doesn't just make you feel
good.
It actually makes you less able to
detect change in your own brain.
Phil Reed, a professor of psychology at
Swansea University, has written about a
concept he calls dopamine overdose.
Because here's what most people think
dopamine does, right? It makes you feel
good, reward, pleasure. And that's the
popular version, but it's not actually
its primary function.
Dopamine's core job in the brain is to
signal change. It helps you detect
something in your environment that's
shifted, something new that's happening,
novelty, something that's different from
what you expected. It's less about
pleasure and more about noticing.
That detection system works by contrast.
You notice small increase in dopamine
against a low baseline because not that
many things in your environment are
meant to spark dopamine. The way that
you notice a candle being lit in a dark
room. But when the baseline is already
high, when you're already flooded with
dopamine from constant notifications,
reward signals, all the small things
that come out as the small changes
become invisible. It's like trying to
spot a candle in the middle of day. The
signal's there, but you can't see it
against the noise. And Reed points to
studies showing that artificially
increased dopamine levels during
discrimination tasks, tasks where you
have to unlearn something old and learn
something new, actually reduces your
ability to learn the new thing.
Too much dopamine makes you worse at
detecting that something has changed.
Now, apply that to a content creator in
the middle of a growth spike.
You're getting dopamine hits from every
direction, views, subscribers, comments,
shares. Your baseline is elevated and
the very thing that elevated baseline
impairs is your ability to notice
change. Specifically, notice that you
are changing. Your content is shifting.
Your tone is shifting. Your opinions are
shifting, drifting towards whatever the
audience rewards.
But the detection system that would
normally flag this, "Wait, uh
something's changing. I'm not sure you
actually believe what you're saying
there." The information about self is
totally drowned out by the reward
signal. "Ah, the personality alarm's
gone off there. Something's changing."
Because of dopamine, it doesn't just
feel good. It makes you blind to your
own drift. "Oh, this is awkward. Okay,
you're just going to do it anyway. I
guess the reward's big. Okay." Which
means, right?
That the very people that are most at
risk from being changed
by
the algorithm
are precisely the people that are
experiencing the most success. The
bigger the spike, the higher the
baseline.
Then the harder it is to see yourself
clearly.
Because the algorithm rewards certain
content, right?
Therefore, the creator makes more of
that content
and the dopamine reward makes the
creator less able to notice
that they're changing. And the audience
reinforces that direction because that's
what they get served. They don't know
anything else.
Engagement.
Things that make them feel more engaged
and more likely to stay on the platform.
Hey, hey.
And that reward structure
then
reshapes the creator's belief
to match that behavior.
Until the creator
is suddenly, well, I don't know, way
more extreme.
Well, way more left-wing, way more
right-wing. Just anything to get more
views, right? But
at no point does anyone feel
manipulated.
Because it all just feels like choice.
It feels like free choice. It feels like
I don't know, authenticity.
Um it just feels like I'm just saying
what I believe, man.
I'm a I just love the system. Which is,
when you think about it, right?
Exactly
what a perfectly designed conditioning
system would look like from the inside,
right? Which means, well, I think it
means I need to be transparent with you.
Because
because this is what my analytics are
showing me right now.
In the last 28 days, my channel has
received a million views and a lot of
those views have come from the Epstein
videos that I made. They're responsible
for almost all of it. The algorithm's
message is really clear. More Epstein,
make it make more Epstein, more more big
big bang bang. And I can feel that
working on me. I genuinely can. I check
my analytics more than I should. I think
in titles in terms of what will get
clicks rather than what's true. I'm not
saying I act on it, but I do. I'm a rat.
You are a rat, mate. That's
right. You are a rat. That's why
I act like a rat. So how do I not become
Nicholas Perry? And this is the only way
I think is possible and that's by
stating clearly why I'm doing these
videos so that you keep me honest to
them. I'm not posting them because my
echo chamber agrees with me. Posting
them because of what the peer-reviewed
evidence actually says. And I don't see
that evidence out there. And what is the
evidence that I think is most important
to get out there? For example, a study
published in the Journal of Experimental
Psychology in 2014 showing that
experience of power literally damages
the brain's ability to feel empathy. And
yet we're building structures where
people have power. Or the study by
Kraus, Piff, Mendoza, Denton, and
Keltner that showed in Psychological
Review that wealth creates what they
called solipsism, a first-person-only
view of the world. The richer you get,
the less you see other people. Not
because you're evil, but because your
environment stops you requiring to see
other people's point of view. That is
baked into our system and nobody's
talking about it. Wilkinson and Pickett
in Spirit Level in 2009 analyzed data
across dozens of countries and showed
that the more unequal the society, the
worse the outcomes on virtually every
single measure of health, crime, trust,
mental illness, life expectancy, social
mobility. And not just for the poor, for
everyone including the rich. Inequality
doesn't just hurt the people at the
bottom, it degrades the entire system.
And Piketty showed in Capital in 21st
Century clearly that when returns on
capital exceed economic growth, which
they almost always do at the moment,
wealth concentrates inevitably. Not
because of individual greed, but because
of mathematics.
And these views, they're not left-wing,
they're not right-wing. This is
arithmetic and neuroscience. A wealth
tax is not a political position. It's
what the evidence says is necessary if
you want to live in a society that
doesn't keep manufacturing the
conditions that produce Epsteins,
Epsteins, and more Epsteins and the
systems that protect them. Staying quiet
about provable, peer-reviewed,
repeatable facts because I might be
afraid of being called political or
because I'm afraid of the algorithm or
because I'm afraid of the negative
comments.
Staying silent is a political act.
Silence protects the system every time.
So yeah,
the algorithm is trying to change me and
I can feel it working and I'm going to
keep posting anyway, not because of the
algorithm, but because of despite it.
Not because my echo chamber agrees with
me, but because the evidence is the
evidence is the evidence is the evidence
whether anyone agrees with it or not.
And I hope the difference between me and
the rat is not that I'm immune to the
lever. I'm not. Nobody is. The
difference I'm hoping is that I know why
I'm pressing it and it's not for the
food. So if you find value in the
channel, you can support the community
at Angel Comedy and there's a link to
Patreon in the description. Okay,
and I'll see you next Sunday. Thanks for
watching.
It's undoubtedly true that what we might
call the literature of freedom has
aggrandized the individual.
You are free, your values are the only
values and anyone who wants to change
them is your enemy and so on. Well, I
think we are in real trouble because the
whole notion of individual freedom is
miscarrying very badly and is doing
great damage to the individual. I I
think to put it very
in very broad terms, I think what a
culture does for the individual is to
bring him under the control of the
remoter consequences of his behavior.
What what will happen 10 years from now
because of what he does today. And if he
then rejects the culture and said I am
the authority as to what I am going to
do today, he loses contact with with the
future. I think the great danger in
America right now is that we are not
behaving with respect to the remoter
consequences of our behavior and other
cultures are and that could be a very
serious thing.
Well, great. I love chicken.
Great.
Oh.

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