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Who is:\u00a0Chamath Palihapitiya<\/b>? A venture capitalist, Golden State Warriors<\/em> Co-owner, and former Facebook<\/em> VP of User Growth.\u00a0 Here’s what he says with utmost seriousness:<\/span><\/p>\n 08:43\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>There was a hoax on WhatsApp, where in some village in India people were afraid that their kids were going to be kidnapped. Lynchings happened as a result. People were like vigilantes running around thinking they found the person, and they … I mean seriously?!\u00a0 That\u2019s what we\u2019re dealing with.\u00a0 Imagine taking that to the extreme, where you know bad actors can now manipulate large swaths of people to do anything they want.<\/b>\u00a0 It\u2019s a really, really, bad state of affairs, and we [unknowingly] compound the problem, right? We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection because we get rewarded [via a dopamine rush] in these short-term signals, “hearts” (\u2665), “Likes” \u2611, “thumbs up” (??), and we conflate that with value, and with truth, when instead it is fake, brittle popularity.<\/span><\/p>\n 09:55<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s short-term and it leaves you even more — and admit it — vacant and empty before you did it because then it forces you into this vicious cycle where you\u2019re like, what\u2019s the next thing I need to do now because I need it back. Think about that compounded by two billion people, and then think about how people react to the perceptions of others. It\u2019s really bad!\u00a0 So you\u2019re training your brain here<\/b> whether you think it or not, whether you know it or not, whether you acknowledge it or not.\u00a0 Acknowledge that these things where you’re spending hours a day are rewiring your psychology and physiology in a way that now you have to use to go and figure out how to be productive in the commercial world.<\/span><\/p>\n 10:35<\/strong>\u00a0 So if you don\u2019t change this, you are going to get the same behaviors over here. Change this. There\u2019s a reason why Steve Jobs was like anti-social media. I\u2019m telling you I\u2019m not on these f*cking apps.\u00a0 I’m not him, by any stretch of the imagination, but\u00a0I am proactively trying to rewire my brain chemistry to not be short-term focused.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n
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