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But at the same time, you cannot judge people for being different or for making mistakes

Because you understand that they don't have free will.

So it's kind of like a free pass to get rid of that judgment.

And I think he very much lived that.

I think it's brilliant what Scott said.

And I think it's a classic example of him using his economics background and his knowledge of psychology and kind of using that economics frame to explain what's going on.

But,

You know, everything's based on incentives.

Everything's based on, you know, where do you get your rewards from?

Where do you get your punishments from?

And how do you work to try and get more rewards and less punishment?

And I think that definitely drives a lot of human behavior.

And

I think social media is very much set up to do that very intentionally to get you reward or make you feel rewarded, get you that dopamine hit when you get lots of likes or lots of reposts and great replies.

And when you get all sorts of crap back, you get some of the stress or that sort of thing.

And I think they very much have applied that

um, across all social media, not just X about, you know, how do we keep people addicted to this application?

I mean, there's some lawsuits going on right now about that, um, that meta and, um, I forget, I think it might've been met and it's met and Google, I think are involved with that.

And, um, you know, it's, it's, I think it is very true that at least that they designed those applications to addict you.

And so they, um,