Jonathan Haidt: belief

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…No, they read a digest or they hear a digest. Manage the flow. We’re a year away from this working. Google Gemini is working on it already. It’s almost there. Again, in theory, you could be right, and looking at the long history of humanity, and I know your . . . I’m very sympathetic to Matt Ridley’s book, Rational Optimist, Steve Pinker’s points about The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Robert Wright’s book, Nonzero. You may be right. I think I’m right that we’re going into a dip. It’s gigantic in terms of mental health impact, suicide rates, self-harm, hospitalizations, missed potential. But you might be right that this is early days, and in 30 to 50 years, the next generation or two generations from now could be so optimized that they’re like superhuman. Do we agree on that? I don’t know what superhuman means, but I think these things are going to go well. Let’s put it that way.…

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