Chamath Palihapitiya on Joe Rogan: Why Attention Warps Tech

PageRank, social feeds, and transformer AI all optimize for attention; Chamath says the resulting capital-labor gap is the real source of anti-tech anger.

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May 5, 20262h 45mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: May 5, 2026
Duration: 2h 45m
Channel: The Joe Rogan Experience
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Chamath Palihapitiya is a venture capitalist, engineer, founder of Social Capital, and a co-host of the podcast “All-In.” https://www.youtube.com/@allin https://www.youtube.com/@chamath https://chamath.substack.com https://www.socialcapital.com Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan. Get 30% off + 2 free gifts at https://ARMRA.com/rogan This video is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit https://BetterHelp.com/JRE

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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan, Chamath Palihapitiya on Joe Rogan: Why Attention Warps Tech explores attention, AI, inequality, and governance risks in a changing world They argue that “attention” is the hidden through-line connecting Google, social media algorithms, and modern AI architectures, while also distorting public priorities away from harder structural problems.

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