Jonathan Haidt
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5,062 appearances
20 recordings
18 series
first heard Mar 2024
last heard 26 Jun
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So let's return to the hive.
What do we see when we look at technology in childhood through this lens?
When we start from the premise that humans are ultra-social, what we see is that these technologies are being built by people who don't understand that premise.
They think of people as consumers with social needs that can be satisfied by machines.
They think it's good to free people from dependence on other people.
Let's suppose, just for the sake of argument, let's suppose that they really can give us excellent friends and excellent romantic partners.
In fact, just yesterday at lunch, Esther Perel told me she recently did her first couples therapy with a mixed couple, a human male and an AI female.
So is this liberation?
Do we no longer have to depend on other people to meet our social needs?
Would that make us happy if we don't have to depend on others?
Absolutely not.
Because that would mean that nobody depends on us.
Nobody is relying on us.
We are not important to anyone.
So is this our fate?
Is there any way to stop this lonely digital future?
Yes, there is.
When The Anxious Generation came out two years ago, one of the main objections I got was that I was too late.
The technology is here to stay, people said.
You can't put the genie back in the bottle.
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