What the hell happened to Jonathan Haidt?

in jonathan •  7 months ago 

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I was never a fan, but he never was this dumb. He sounds like an old man yelling at clouds in this interview with Tyler Cowen. He comes off as completely ridiculous.

And when Tyler challenges him on some of this stuff he really seems to fail to recognize how shaky his claims are.

Also lol:

"Instead, what’s coming — it’s already the case for boys especially, that they can’t go over to each other’s houses after school because then they can’t play video games. When you and I were young, video games were coming in, and you’d go over to someone’s house, and you’d sit next to each other, and you’d play Pong or whatever. You’d play a game, and you’d joke with each other, and you’d eat food, and then you’d do something else.

Video games used to be fairly healthy, but once they became multiplayer, you wear your headphones, you’ve got your controller, they’re incredibly immersive. Now, you have to be alone in your room in order to play them. Now, you bring in virtual AI girlfriends and boyfriends. Already, Gen Z — those born after 1995 — are completely starved of the kinds of social experiences that they need to grow up."

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