Ari Wallach

So look, in aggregate, because we can find peaks and valleys, right, when we zoom in, if we pull back, there's no better time to be alive as a homo sapien on planet Earth than right now. Now, someone's going to argue right now, and they're going to say, no, no, no, no.

Health, infant mortality, even as we backslide in this country, being a woman, education. the kind of the calories that we get across the book. If you and I go outside and you stepped on a rusty nail 100 years ago, good chance you would die. Right now, we just go to the drugstore and put something on it. Or we even know that we don't even have to put anything on it.

Health, infant mortality, even as we backslide in this country, being a woman, education. the kind of the calories that we get across the book. If you and I go outside and you stepped on a rusty nail 100 years ago, good chance you would die. Right now, we just go to the drugstore and put something on it. Or we even know that we don't even have to put anything on it.

Health, infant mortality, even as we backslide in this country, being a woman, education. the kind of the calories that we get across the book. If you and I go outside and you stepped on a rusty nail 100 years ago, good chance you would die. Right now, we just go to the drugstore and put something on it. Or we even know that we don't even have to put anything on it.

We can just put it underneath high-pressure water for 30 seconds, and that'll clean out because we now know germ theory, right? So net-net, this is the best time to be alive. All the markers, you can go to Gapminder if you want, and you can see that we are doing better. We are progressing. The issue is...

We can just put it underneath high-pressure water for 30 seconds, and that'll clean out because we now know germ theory, right? So net-net, this is the best time to be alive. All the markers, you can go to Gapminder if you want, and you can see that we are doing better. We are progressing. The issue is...

We can just put it underneath high-pressure water for 30 seconds, and that'll clean out because we now know germ theory, right? So net-net, this is the best time to be alive. All the markers, you can go to Gapminder if you want, and you can see that we are doing better. We are progressing. The issue is...

We are now at an inflection point because the things that we do or do not do across the major issues of our day and how we deal with them – climate change, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology – What we do or do not do will dictate not only the next several years and several decades, potentially the next several centuries. So you've hit it. We're being bombarded by information.

We are now at an inflection point because the things that we do or do not do across the major issues of our day and how we deal with them – climate change, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology – What we do or do not do will dictate not only the next several years and several decades, potentially the next several centuries. So you've hit it. We're being bombarded by information.

We are now at an inflection point because the things that we do or do not do across the major issues of our day and how we deal with them – climate change, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology – What we do or do not do will dictate not only the next several years and several decades, potentially the next several centuries. So you've hit it. We're being bombarded by information.

Most of the information we're attracted to is the negative negativity bias. You and I, we're going to go back to Ari and Andy 150,000 years ago. If we saw this beautiful tree aesthetically and we saw maybe a tree over here that was on fire, you and I would zoom in on the tree on fire and focus on the negative because negative things hurt and kill us.

Most of the information we're attracted to is the negative negativity bias. You and I, we're going to go back to Ari and Andy 150,000 years ago. If we saw this beautiful tree aesthetically and we saw maybe a tree over here that was on fire, you and I would zoom in on the tree on fire and focus on the negative because negative things hurt and kill us.

Most of the information we're attracted to is the negative negativity bias. You and I, we're going to go back to Ari and Andy 150,000 years ago. If we saw this beautiful tree aesthetically and we saw maybe a tree over here that was on fire, you and I would zoom in on the tree on fire and focus on the negative because negative things hurt and kill us.

That being said, if you and I run a major media company, you and I both know that the more negative stories that we put out, the more hits we're going to get.

That being said, if you and I run a major media company, you and I both know that the more negative stories that we put out, the more hits we're going to get.

That being said, if you and I run a major media company, you and I both know that the more negative stories that we put out, the more hits we're going to get.

But all the other way. I would argue some of your success comes from the fact that you don't wallow in the negativity and there's a real thirst and a hunger and desire to learn more about who we are and how we can make ourselves better. But that negativity bias is still part of us, right? I think one of the issues that...

But all the other way. I would argue some of your success comes from the fact that you don't wallow in the negativity and there's a real thirst and a hunger and desire to learn more about who we are and how we can make ourselves better. But that negativity bias is still part of us, right? I think one of the issues that...

But all the other way. I would argue some of your success comes from the fact that you don't wallow in the negativity and there's a real thirst and a hunger and desire to learn more about who we are and how we can make ourselves better. But that negativity bias is still part of us, right? I think one of the issues that...

we have to confront as a society is that there are parts of us, the prefrontal cortex parts of us that are amazing, that build microphones, that have conversations that stream across the internet. And then there are parts of us, you know, this is Jonathan's elephant in the rider.