The Social Dilemma Part 3 - Dr. Rebecca Roache

This week join Dr. Tim Scarfe, Yannic Kilcher, and Keith Duggar have a conversation with Dr. Rebecca Roache in the last of our 3-part series on the social dilemma Netflix film. Rebecca is a senior lecturer in philosophy at Royal Holloway, university of London and has written extensively about the future of friendship.  People claim that friendships are not what they used to be. People are always staring at their phones, even when in public  Social media has turned us into narcissists who are always managing our own PR rather than being present with each other. Anxiety about the negative effects of technology are as old as the written word. Is technology bad for friendships? Can you have friends through screens? Does social media cause polarization? And is that a bad thing? Does it promote quantity over quality? Rebecca thinks that social media and echo chambers are less ominous to friendship on closer inspection.  00:00:32 Teaser clip from Rebecca and her new manuscript on friendship 00:02:52 Introduction  00:04:56 Memorisation vs reasoning / is technology enhancing friendships  00:09:29 Word of warcraft / gaming communities / echo chambers / polarisation  00:12:34 Horizontal vs Vertical social attributes  00:17:18 Exclusion of others opinions  00:20:36 The power to silence others / truth verification  00:23:58 Misinformation  00:27:28 Norms / memes / political terms and co-opting / bullying  00:31:57 Redefinition of political terms i.e. racism  00:36:13 Virtue signalling  00:38:57 How many friends can you have / spread thin / Dunbars 150  00:42:54 Is it morally objectionable to believe or contemplate objectionable ideas, punishment  00:50:52 Is speaking the same thing as acting   00:52:24 Punishment - deterrence vs retribution / historical  00:53:59 Yannic: contemplating is a form of speaking  00:57:32 silencing/blocking is intellectual laziness - what ideas are we allowed to talk about  01:04:53 Corporate AI ethics frameworks  01:09:14 Autonomous Vehicles  01:10:51 the eternal Facebook world / online vs offline friendships  01:14:05 How do we get the best out of our online friendships