Jonathan Haidt
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first heard Jun 2026
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Boys are actually showing up at the docks and renting boats and they're going fishing because they're not on social media all day long.
So yes, that could happen to some extent, but the overall effects are generally very, very positive.
The next thing is the arguments that you just quoted that I've heard for drug legalization for a long time.
And I was always very open to that.
And especially during the crime waves of the 70s and 80s, when there was a lot of crime around drugs, it seemed like, okay, maybe we shouldn't have prohibition, maybe we should make it legal.
Well, it's not working out very well.
And a lot of the places that have done it really regret it because they're discovering exactly what you and I were just talking about.
When you make addictive substances easily available instantly to everyone, you get a huge increase in usage and addiction.
And when you get usage and addiction, you get dopamine insensitivity.
I just heard Anna Lemke.
Have you had Anna Lemke on your podcast?
She's a wonderful addiction researcher at Stanford.
She was just on...
with Cal Newport.
And she just made it so, it's just so clear.
Any addiction, anything you're doing that's giving you quick dopamine is going to cause your system to counteract, you know, opponent process theories.
and is going to cause dopamine... Tolerance and addiction.
Yeah, dopamine tolerance.
It was dopamine... Dependence?
Dopamine diminishment?
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