Jonathan Haidt

It's all worse.

It's like that revenge by time procrastination.

It's teenage.

Or let's take it a step further and not do anything and just sit there.

Sit there on your couch.

We talked about boredom very briefly.

That's like torture for this generation.

Yeah.

It's torture, but it's also, you know, we don't, we still have a capacity for boredom, meaning we, as the human brain does, but we just don't allow ourselves to get bored.

And so when you're thinking about, you know, that art, the lost art of pondering and just sitting there, you know, I think, I don't know if it was Stephen, you or Jonathan said, you know, when you're in the car, I remember as a little kid, we did road trips with my family and all you would do is just make up games, look out of the window.

Yeah, we've lost that.

And so there's this thing called the default mode network, which I think is important to think about right now as we're thinking about AI and what's going to happen and how it's going to hijack our sense of attachment and attention.

So the sense of meaning and purpose, right?

If you ask people right now, most people will say I am a keynote speaker.

So I speak all over.

And when I ask people, the word that comes up over and over is a sense of horizonlessness.

Adults.

Oh, interesting.

People feel like they have nothing to look forward to right now.

The human brain needs something to look forward to.