How Smartphones are Wrecking Your Life | Jonathan Haidt | EP 556

Half of our kids say they're online almost constantly. Once you give your kid a smartphone and Instagram or Tik

Tok or Snapchat, that's sort of the end of what we might have thought of as normal childhood. We've actually created

machines that use reinforcement technology to optimize the grip of reinforcement technology. Tik Tok 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