Jonathan Haidt

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899 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 24 Jun

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that it's wrong to harm animals or to gamble or to peer into your neighbor's window, whatever.

If everyone agrees, then our brains code that as, this is a moral fact.

But when some people think animal cruelty is fun and some think it's bad and everything is like that- So it's a dilution principle.

Well, it's that the young child's brain is, you have to see it as a learning machine.

It's trying to figure out,

How do we live around here?

What is the moral order?

What is right and good?

The brain is trying to figure that out from the age of maybe six or seven and then desperately in the teens, trying to figure that out.

And if we give it a learning environment, that's just all fragmented.

It's just all little videos.

And the videos that they, I mean, the violence in the videos, the beheadings.

Individuals, of course, we all still have a morality, but it's not operating in a field within which it was designed to operate or can operate well.

And this is, again, why I'm so pessimistic about the technology.

I mean, we need a radical rethinking of technology.

And there are those who are saying, go faster, faster, faster.

Any attempt to slow down AI will kill people because it'll delay the cure for cancer.

And I say,

The way we're going with AI is continuing what we did with social media.

It's shredding relationships.

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