Half of our kids say they're online almost constant.

Once you give your kid a smartphone and Instagram or TikTok or Snapchat,

that's sort of the end of what we might have thought of as normal child.

We've actually created machines that use reinforcement technology

to optimize the grip of reinforcement technology.

TikTok or YouTube shorts, it's just such degrading trash.

There's a race to the bottom online that's probably a consequence of something like

algorithmic competition for grip of short-term attention.

And that's completely tantamount to addiction.

Under no circumstances should 12, 13, 14-year-old kids be doing this.

But then there's also the problem of what children aren't doing while they're absorbed in their screens.

My overall message is once you understand what's going on in these online worlds, especially social media, they're just not for children.

Too much supervision in the real world and no supervision at all in the online world.

You know, if our minds are like an LLM, what are you putting in?

Are you putting in movies and books and good television?

Or are you putting in little 10-second clips of people getting kicked in the balls?

This is a tremendous loss to any society.

Music So what's the issue that we're discussing today?

What is technology, communications technology, hyper-connectivity, social media doing to our children,

and what can you do about it?

Who am I speaking to about that topic?

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, who is one of the most precise and deep psychologists working today.

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