Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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There is a quiet assumption most of us carry without ever examining it: that we are in control of our own attention. That every video, every scroll, every click is something we chose. But what if the machine got there first? What if free will, the thing you're using right now to trust your own judgment, to believe you're in control of this exact moment, has already been switched off? Not stolen in one dramatic act. Just worn away. Recommendation after recommendation after recommendation. Quietly. Without alarm. Without objection and without you ever noticing it was gone.

00:00 The Death of Free Will
01:56 Is free will even real?
13:00 Money Games
19:29 Engineering Compliance

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