Tristan Harris
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Like a single person looking at the situation, a single listener.
Like if I were listening to this conversation, I would feel overwhelmed.
I'd feel depressed.
I'd feel nihilistic.
Or I'd find reasons to doubt it.
I would say like, this can't be right.
I'm going to like write a nasty YouTube comment and be, you know, so I can feel good and I'm right and he's wrong.
Because then I get to live my life and feel good about my life.
what is the incentive for taking on this worldview?
There's no incentive.
What people have to see and believe is that there's actually a different way through this.
And
An individual has a hard time making that happen.
If you ask what's something else, like what if one company saw the situation, they see this whole thing we just talked about, the anti-human future, mass intelligence curse, replacement of everybody.
One business can't do that much about it.
If I'm one country in the Philippines, I see this whole thing.
I'm the leader of the Philippines.
I see this whole problem.
What can I do about it?
It feels too big for me.