#291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media
Lex Fridman Podcast
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What Makes Groups Smart or Stupid?
This isn't just another article about how social media is polarizing us and destroying democracy. The heart of the article is an analysis of what makes groups smart and what makes stupid. And so a because, as we said earlier, you know, my own research is on post talk justification, rationalization. That's what makes universities smart at what makes them generators of knowledge. Unless we stop dissent, what if we say there can be no dissent? If anyone comes up with research that says otherwise, we're going to destroy them. We'll destroy any academic even tweats a study contradicting what is the a word,. were going todestroy them. It's very dangerous when people use social
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