"In January 2019, YouTube announced that they will be cracking down on conspiracy theories by changing search results and suggested videos to reduce the spread of “borderline content”, that “comes close to — but doesn’t quite cross the line of — violating our Community Guidelines”. This includes suggestions to videos “promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness” or “making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11”, that could “misinform users in harmful ways”. This came after repeated criticism from the mainstream media that YouTube’s recommendation algorithm is an engine for far-right radicalization and fake news... The only way to find out what YouTube’s conspiracy crackdown really means is to go straight to the data. By closely monitoring their recommendations, I hope to be able to piece together patterns about how they are influencing politics. Who are the real winners and losers of Youtube’s conspiracy crackdown?" That's from Mark Ledwich's recent article: https://medium.com/@markoledwich/the-winners-and-losers-of-youtubes-conspiracy-crackdown-60804c3e0436 Visualization of US Political YouTube: https://pyt.azureedge.net/ My articles: https://medium.com/@markoledwich If you'd like to join my forum, request an invitation here: http://bit.ly/join-otherlife-via-youtube Become a supporting member at https://patreon.com/jmrphy Based Deleuze: https://theotherlifenow.com/based-deleuze Free course on Data Blogging with R: https://jmrphy.ck.page/data-blogging-mini-course Free course on how to be a cancel-proof intellectual on the internet: https://jmrphy.ck.page/f443443b16 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZIXxCIojrs

We discuss the enneagram personality model, my decision to become 10% more psycho, why Mike loves Gandhi, Christian anarchism, and markets for truth. ✦ Mike is the founder of IdeaMarket.io ✦ Mike on Twitter: https://twitter.com/harmonylion1 Other Life ✦ Subscribe to the coolest newsletter in the world https://OtherLife.co ✦ Get a free Urbit planet at https://imperceptible.computer ✦ We're building a new country at https://imperceptible.country IndieThinkers.org ✦ If you're working on independent intellectual work, join the next cohort of https://IndieThinkers.org 0:00 Intro 1:01 Enneagram personality model 4:11 Personal knowledge management is bullsh*t 5:26 Become 10% more psycho 13:02 Justin's jokerfied origin story & psychotic equilibria 25:17 Tolstoy & Christian anarchy 31:05 Gandhi, based or cringe? 36:06 Living the Truth via Christianity 47:34 Christianity = buddhism... but 10% more psycho 51:12 Navigating the marketplace of ideas & the primacy of low-status sources 1:03:53 Revitalizing Christianity in a post-secular society 1:10:45 Christian-crypto aesthetic renaissance 1:14:58 Finding Mark & his work 1:15:18 Upcoming Ideamarket project 1:18:44 Closing words ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXDq1XqjJgg