Jonathan Haidt

And so you're developing these platforms that are immensely profitable that ramp up dissent and ramp up anger and ramp up arguments.

And like in the case of yourself, instead of just debating you on these issues and doing it in a good faith manner, Jonathan Haidt believes this, this is why I disagree.

I think of this or that.

Instead, they'll label you as...

Whatever.

Racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic, whatever they can say, whatever pejoratives they can throw at you that essentially this reductionist view of your perspective that makes it incredibly negative.

That's right.

And then you'll get bots that interact with that, that push that.

Do you think that if you looked at algorithms, do you think that it's an overall net negative?

And could the argument be made that algorithms should be banned?

And this doesn't seem like it's slowing down.

It seems like it's ramping up and it seems like they've gotten more efficient at the use of algorithms and all these different methods like retweeting and reposting and different things that sort of accentuate what people are upset about and what people get riled up about.

Well, what's very bizarre that we're seeing with the initial implementation of it, specifically with Google's version of it, is that it's ideologically captured.

And it's not just Google.

It's ChatGPT.

It's not as explicit, but it does do certain things.

Like if you ask it to say something positive about Donald Trump, it refuses.

You ask it to say something positive about Joe Biden, it'll gaslight you.

Yeah.

Right.