Andrew Huberman

using progressively more social media online more and oh, we got brain rod and oh, we, and surprise, surprise.

Well, no, there's this thing called plasticity that we knew about.

It's just, we didn't understand how the brain gets modified on these platforms, on these algorithms.

And instead we looked at,

It was like we were so focused on the content, but not the the algorithmic underpinnings of the content.

It is.

What you described before, the AI becoming more sycophantic, the person getting more paranoid, you know the image that was in my mind?

What?

Was an eccentric billionaire who can control everything in their environment but is terrified and is controlling of everything because they feel like they're vulnerable if they don't.

That's exactly what you described AI is doing to essentially everyone.

I'm letting that sink in.

When I think about the algorithm being the thing that shapes the brain, the analogy that pops to mind is, if I wanna change a nervous system,

I don't care if it's a rat, cat, monkey, bat, or human.

I know what you're going to say.

I'm going to spike adrenaline and I'm going to provide an experience.

I mean, these experiments have been done by James McGaugh and others over many years.

Like I can give an animal or a person a terrifying experience, give them a beta blocker,

and their memory for it will be meager if any.

If I don't, they're going to have a very salient memory.

It's that one pointedness that you referred to.