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Showing posts with label Gen Z crisis. Show all posts
After Babel ✏ Freya India explains how algorithms act as conveyor belts, transporting girls to dark and extreme places. Recommended by Henry Joy. 

A note from Jon Haidt

In October 2021, the brilliant Helen Pluckrose introduced me to a young British woman who had written some superb essays about the problems members of Gen Z were facing for her at Areo, Freya wanted to talk with me about a book she was thinking about writing, and I wanted to learn more from her about what young women were experiencing online.

Freya’s writing is compassionate, gripping, and deeply psychological, including essays such as My Generation Isn’t Suffering Enough (which is about antifragility), and Women’s Sexuality is Powerful, Is Onlyfans The Way to Use It? She recently wrote an essay that has haunted me, titled We Can’t Compete with AI Girlfriends. It’s about what is going to happen to young women as ever more young men shack up with gorgeous, witty, programmable AI girlfriends, who can be given proportions and personalities unobtainable by real women . . . 

— Jon

. . . P.S. If you like Freya’s writing, sign up for her Substack, GIRLS where she writes about the challenges girls face in the modern world.

Continue reading @ After Babel.

Algorithms Hijacked My Generation 🔴 I Fear For Gen Alpha

From Tunku Varadarajan @ the Wall Street Journal ➖ and considered a worthwhile read by Christopher Owens. 

Warped by social media and a victimhood culture, today’s young people will imperil American culture and capitalism, the social psychologist warns.

The phrase “generation gap” became popular in the late 1960s, as baby boomers were coming of age. To hear social psychologist Jonathan Haidt tell it, today’s generation gap has widened into a chasm. “We have a whole generation that’s doing terribly,” he says in an interview at his professorial office, book-lined and hushed, at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He calls it a “national crisis.”

At 59, Mr. Haidt is a young boomer, and he isn’t talking about millennials, some of whom are in their 40s by now. Rather, he has in mind the younger cohort, Generation Z, usually defined as those born between 1997 and 2012. “When you look at Americans born after 1995,” Mr. Haidt says, “what you find is that they have extraordinarily high rates of anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicide and fragility.” There has “never been a generation this depressed, anxious and fragile.”

Continue reading @ Wall Street Journal.

Jonathan Haidt On The ‘National Crisis’ Of Gen Z

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