Dr. Justin Coulson

We might have very different opinions, but we kind of find a way to come together.

We find a way to work out, well, yeah, I get where you're coming from.

I don't agree with you, but we can still be friends, right?

Online, you can't still be friends because the algorithm amplifies and magnifies difference.

It's not how we're designed.

It's not what our brain is meant to do.

But the super online world has shifted way faster than our brain will ever catch up.

And therefore, it creates this stress.

No, I think that this is absolutely engineering.

This is persuasive design at its most.

I feel like doing my Dr. Evil.

The Mark Zuckerbergs of the world are the most mendacious pieces of human garbage that are out there.

They're literally creating products, creating platforms, creating software that

It pulls us in directions that we are not naturally designed to go in.

There's this Harvard sociologist, his name is Steven Pinker, and he has written a whole bunch of books and done a whole lot of studies about how we are actually designed to work things out.

We're designed to collaborate and to cooperate.

We're designed to get along.

That's how humanity has gotten to where it is.

And these platforms are literally, they're literally tearing us apart.

They're going right to the very heart of what it is to be a good human and stomping all over it with their steel cap boots.