New Year's advice to unplug from the 24/7 social media/news virtual reality and calm down. I argue that social media, social psychology tricks, recommendation engines, and state of the art AI are driving a massive, costly and dangerous overreaction to the COVID-19 pandemic and offer some advice to retake your mind from technology run amok. References/Credits: Tristan Harris and the AI Apocalypse Tristan Harris Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tristan_Harris_at_Collision_Conf_2018_(cropped).jpg "How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day" Tristan Harris TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C74amJRp730 Tristan Harris Web Site: https://www.tristanharris.com/ Laurie Santos on Knowing About Cognitive Bias is Not Enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO9xwAyeWX0 Lauria Santos and Tamar Gendler on "Knowing is Half the Battle": https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25436 Nobel Prize Winning Cognitive Bias Expert Falls Prey to Cognitive Bias Cognitive Bias Expert Daniel Kahneman Placed Too Much Confidence in Underpowered Studies: https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-underpowered-studies-nobel-prize-winner-admits-mistakes/ High IQ People are Vulnerable to Cognitive Bias Does High Intelligence Mean Low Cognitive Bias? https://www.globalcognition.org/intelligence-and-cognitive-bias/ Myside Bias, Rational Thinking, and Intelligence By Keith E. Stanovich, Richard F. West, and Maggie E. Toplak http://keithstanovich.com/Site/Research_on_Reasoning_files/Stanovich_CDPS_2013.pdf High intelligence: A risk factor for psychological and physiological overexcitabilities By Ruth I.Karpinski, Audrey M.Kinase Kolb, Nicole A.Tetreault, and Thomas B.Borowski https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289616303324 Bad News for the Highly Intelligent Superior IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests By David Z. Hambrick, Madeline Marquardt on December 5, 2017, Scien