Steve Melnick
@smelnick
Steve Melnick
David Foster Wallace on the internet, way back in 1996.
"Like at a certain point we're gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this.
Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier,... See more
This is crazy and kind of heartbreaking. In a huge survey of young kids about phones and technology, they all say they want to be out playing in the real world. But parents don't let them out unsupervised. So they're stuck on their phones. https://t.co/Pj9k4mS4to
nxthompsonx.comTHRILLING piece on whether phones may be the next "Puritan frontier" where we avoid life's messines...which curdles into OCD.
I hope Andrew Kay reads my @TheAtlantic piece abt kids LONGING for real-life fun, but are given phones...creating more OCD?
https://t.co/eISZFiBEkZ
Lenore Skenazyx.comJust finished reading a 17,000-word parent review of @AlphaSchoolATX, the now-famous “AI school” in the US where students supposedly finish all their academics in just two hours a day. I’ve been following Alpha for a while now (even spoke with their team once) though I haven’t had the chance to visit a campus yet. The school started in Texas, has... See more
Rui Max.comGreat observation: We regulate self-driving cars heavily but have no guardrails on AI and kids because "damage to the mind and soul are no big deal, not like real injuries"
Jonathan Haidtx.com