Tristan Harris

Wilson, this Harvard sociobiologist, said the fundamental problem of humanity is we have paleolithic brains.

and emotions.

We have medieval institutions that operate at a medieval clock rate.

And we have godlike technology that's moving at now 21st to 24th century speed when AI self improves.

And we can't depend, our paleolithic brains need to feel pain now for us to act.

What happened with social media is we could have acted if we saw the incentive clearly.

It was all clear.

We could have just said, oh, this is going to head to a bad future.

Let's change the incentive now.

And imagine we had done that and you rewind the last 15 years and you did not run all of society through this logic, this perverse logic of maximizing addiction, loneliness, engagement, personalized information that amplifies sensational, outrageous content that drives division.

You would have ended up in a totally different elections, totally different culture, totally different children's health.

just by changing that incentive early.

So the invitation here is that we have to put on sort of our farsighted glasses and make a choice before we go down this road.

And I'm wondering, what will it take for us to do that?

Because to me, it's just clarity.

If you have clarity about a current path that no one wants, we choose the other one.

And I think that one piece of clarity is

we do not know how to control something that is a million times smarter than us.

Yeah, I mean, what the hell?

Control is a kind of game.