… treated to me actually not like town squares and much more like pharmaceutical companies because that's fundamentally what they do when they keep you scrolling, keep kids scrolling. In particular, They really operate more like online gambling apps than they do like town squares because they're playing with your dopamine system. The dopamine system in your brain is a primeval system, 600 million years old and it responds to variable reward. How many likes am I going to get? (15:12–15:19)
CLAIM
Asserts that social media companies exploit users' dopamine systems similar to gambling apps.
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