Michael Regilio

Yes.

I call it Regilio's law.

Yes.

Anyway, so you and I are grown men.

So we have the trouble fighting these temptations.

Just imagine how much harder this must be for teenagers.

And app developers know exactly what they're doing.

Adolescents crave social acceptance, status, novelty, emotional intensity, and they fear exclusion.

So these systems are designed to exploit every one of those instincts.

Oh, yeah, of course.

Just like they're manipulating teenagers brains by design, they're doing as little as they can by design because this is how they make their money.

In fact, Reed Hastings from Netflix once admitted that the real competitors are sleep and human connection.

Yeah.

It was like on an investor call or something.

But it tells you everything you need to know about their incentives.

And it gets actually worse.

So through whistleblowers and records obtained through lawsuits filed by state attorneys general.

that we have now 31 internal studies done by Meta, and the studies show pretty clearly that Meta knew their product was doing harm to young people, particularly, once again, adolescent girls.

They employ the same psychology that slot machine designers use, and these are powerful techniques that hack our brains and keep us pulling that lever for the next dopamine hit.

Yeah, it doesn't get much clearer than that, I guess.