> “We need to stop treating kids as if they’re idiots”
There is a balance here, yes kids are smarter than we probably give them credit for. But they're also more vulnerable when it comes to their social circles, as well as addictive habits.
Social media causes issues with us adults, let alone our young kids who also get caught up in the same messes.
You can throw all sorts of arbitrary "perhaps this is why" topics at it to potentially explain why kids have been struggling with their mental health and its decline. Its likely not one thing but a combination of things, of which social media is thought to be the predominant reason.
> not even a meaningful correlation between the amount of time kids are on social media or on smartphones and their mental health
There have been a large number of studies and meta-analysis that show detrimental impacts of short form video content on people in general not just kids. Across their attention spans, their reward centers and also its algorithmic ability to push content to minds who struggle to ignore it, or which creates false anxieties through content which generalises mental health or relationship issues.
There is something I find strange about buying a display and as a feature to put that on the back of another display (Phone) for the purposes of reading. I'd rather have a separate device with a larger screen and take advantage of that.
We're pretty crap in a capitalist society to think about those things ahead of time. Firstly, the idea that AI could "runaway" was simply a concept or a thought it wasn't baked into a real product that could do that. We're now getting close or perhaps we are at that point of where you can't race at speed for investors without now considering a real kill switch.
You could say this in hindsight for many times in which disasters or engineering issues have occurred.
Why Apple doesn't say "I'm sorry but your photos aren't accessible because they are being sorted and indexed at the moment"?
I didn't know inadvance why Siri can't access my photos (turns out it's because indexing isn't done) - at the beginning I thought there was some sort of other problem. Later I figured out (after going through privacy/permissions stuff) that it's too stupid to know why it can't see my photos.
Its interesting though because I have a car with excellent speakers and I am extremely glad that I can plug my phone into my car and play music through the Lightning port, it sounds drastically different between that and playing it through the Bluetooth connection.
I am looking to purchase a new car and through test driving it has a better sound system on paper with more speakers and a subwoofer and the sound is limited by the performance of the Bluetooth connection.
There is a balance here, yes kids are smarter than we probably give them credit for. But they're also more vulnerable when it comes to their social circles, as well as addictive habits.
Social media causes issues with us adults, let alone our young kids who also get caught up in the same messes.
You can throw all sorts of arbitrary "perhaps this is why" topics at it to potentially explain why kids have been struggling with their mental health and its decline. Its likely not one thing but a combination of things, of which social media is thought to be the predominant reason.
> not even a meaningful correlation between the amount of time kids are on social media or on smartphones and their mental health
There have been a large number of studies and meta-analysis that show detrimental impacts of short form video content on people in general not just kids. Across their attention spans, their reward centers and also its algorithmic ability to push content to minds who struggle to ignore it, or which creates false anxieties through content which generalises mental health or relationship issues.
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