Hany Farid
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although I said this in my talk, get off of social media.
And I mean that.
You really should, by the way.
The evidence is overwhelming.
It is bad for you.
It's bad for your mental health.
It's bad for your physical health.
And I swear to God, it drops your IQ by 20 points.
You should get off of it.
But I'm also realistic that berating people for doing something that they know is bad for them is telling people to stop eating potato chips.
I just ate a bag of potato chips, by the way.
Delicious.
Fantastic.
So I think we have to give them better options.
I think what we have to do is say, look, this stuff sucks and it's bad for you, but here's something that's good, right?
And it doesn't suck and it's good for you.
So I think I would like to see...
The venture capital community start to try to invest in companies that are just better, right?
This is a group of people, by the way, that I think get off without a lot of criticism.
All of these tech companies are VC-backed, right?