Jonathan Haidt

Most of us were techno optimists.

Most of us thought these companies are amazing.

Google, you know, Apple, Facebook.

We thought these were amazing.

They're going to bring peace on earth.

So there was a more mission.

And I need to be careful.

I don't want to make it sound like tech companies are full of evil people.

That is definitely not true.

Oh, no, that's okay.

Okay, they're all bastards.

You're totally fine there.

Go ahead.

But yes, many social psychologists and developmental psychologists went to work for them, especially in marketing.

But we know that a lot of them have a little bit of knowledge.

They talk a lot about dopamine.

Even engineers will mention dopamine.

They know that they're trying to arrange things, arrange the pattern of dopamine hits and reinforcements.

When Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, when she brought out thousands of photograph screenshots of internal reports, there was one, it was a Facebook, it was a presentation on brain science.

And they showed here's the adolescent brain and the frontal cortex is the last part to myelinate, to kind of lock down into the adult pattern.