Jonathan Haidt
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jun
Jonathan Haidt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So if you're texting a friend, fine.
If you're using WhatsApp with a small group, that's great, no problem.
But if you are now trying to gain followers by doing whatever it takes to get followers,
You are now putting yourself in a Skinner box.
So BF Skinner, behaviorist, found that if he created special boxes where he could train rats or pigeons very, very quickly by giving them, he could click a button, give them a reward every time they did a little something that he wanted, then they do a little more, then they turn a little further.
And eventually he taught them how to play ping pong.
He did amazing things.
You can train animals very quickly if you can give them quick rewards.
And once you put kids into an environment in which they're trying things and looking at the response, trying things, looking at the response, they're in a Skinner box.
And who has the button giving them rewards?
It ain't you as the parent.
It's whoever is the most weird and extreme.
Now, I don't want to knock people of lots of followers.
Some people earned it.
But a lot of kids are in a desperate race to do whatever it takes to get followers.
You could imagine a form of social media that wasn't about quick dopamine.
But the ones that we have, because as Meta pioneered the advertising-driven business model,
At first, apps were charging money, but then they all quickly discovered, if you offer the app for free, but it's just paid for by advertising, you'll get millions of people taking your app.
So once Facebook pioneered the advertising-driven business model and others joined in, now the race is on to...
I gotta grab your eyeballs before he does.
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