I was thinking about this same thing this morning. Our smartest minds are, for the most part, invested in the fracking of our attention so that they can make money off ad dollars. The opposite of liberating and creative.
I think one solution, though, is a free market response to all this crap in the form of designing devices with intention that have a built-in ethos and value system that literally excludes attention fracking apps from the device itself. I've been using a specific smartphone that is geared towards reducing screentime through its native OS. So instead of going to war with my phone each day and trying to download an app to make the other apps less addicting, I just don't even have that problem. I guess this solution relies on people actually wanting to opt out of this stuff. Somewhat of a chicken or egg issue. Are people distracted because of their devices or because they willfully seek to ingest slop and be distracted? I want to believe its the former but I think it's a combo that requires people to do some soul searching.
“For Sam Altman, he’s caught in a lose/lose scenario — “ May this spiral continue
It’s interesting how stupid smart people can be.
Companies like OpenAI and Meta are pushing AI so hard because it's all they've got. If it fails, they're ruined.
I was thinking about this same thing this morning. Our smartest minds are, for the most part, invested in the fracking of our attention so that they can make money off ad dollars. The opposite of liberating and creative.
I think one solution, though, is a free market response to all this crap in the form of designing devices with intention that have a built-in ethos and value system that literally excludes attention fracking apps from the device itself. I've been using a specific smartphone that is geared towards reducing screentime through its native OS. So instead of going to war with my phone each day and trying to download an app to make the other apps less addicting, I just don't even have that problem. I guess this solution relies on people actually wanting to opt out of this stuff. Somewhat of a chicken or egg issue. Are people distracted because of their devices or because they willfully seek to ingest slop and be distracted? I want to believe its the former but I think it's a combo that requires people to do some soul searching.