Tristan Harris

Because today, people don't let their kids use social media.

We changed the way we train engineers and computer scientists.

So to graduate from any engineering school, you had to actually comprehensively study all the places that humanity had gotten technology wrong, including forever chemicals or leaded gasoline, which dropped a billion points of IQ, or social media that caused all these problems.

So now we were graduating a whole new generation of responsible technologists, where even to graduate, you had to have a Hippocratic oath, just like they have the white lab coat and the white lab coat ceremony for doctors, where you swear to Hippocratic oath, do no harm.

We changed dating apps and the whole swiping industrial complex.

So that all these dating app companies had to sort of put aside that whole swiping industrial complex and instead use their resources to host events in every major city every week where there was a place to go where they matched and told you where all your other matches were going to go and meet.

So now instead of feeling scarcity around meeting other people, you felt a sense of abundance because every week there was a place where you could go and meet people you were actually excited about and attracted to.

And it turned out that once people were in healthier relationships, about 20% of the polarization online went down.

And we obviously changed the ownership structure of these companies from being maximizing shareholder value to instead more like public benefit corporations that were about maximizing some kind of benefit because they had taken over the societal commons.

We realized that when software was eating the world, we were also eating core life support systems of society.

So when software ate children's development, we needed to mandate that you had to care and protect children's development.

When you ate the information environment, you had to care for and protect the information environment.

We removed the reply button so you couldn't re-quote and then dunk on people so that dunking on people wasn't a core feature of social media.

That reduced a lot of the polarization.

We had the ability to disconnect comprehensively throughout all these platforms.

So you could say, I wanna go offline for a week.

And all of your services were all about respecting that and making it easy for you to disconnect for a while.

And when you came back, summarized all the news that you missed and told people that you were away for a little while and out of office messages and all this stuff.

So now you're using your phone,

You don't feel dysregulated by dopamine hijacks.