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Surely we know by now that this is not enough? Kids find ways around everything. Even adults find the 'digital wellbeing' tools on Android and iOS useless. Just look at the multitu…

I made MooBlock - a browser extension for digital self-regulation. Basically, it adds a small timeout before you can access a distracting site. This timeout grows the more you visi…

The idea is that the number of cows grows the longer you stay on the site, so it becomes progressively harder to use. And yes it is based off my research on Internet and porn addic…

ScreenZen is great, my first choice for phones as well. Very flexible settings. For desktop, I recently built a free browser extension called MooBlock - it's similar to ScreenZen i…

Also available on Firefox at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mooblock

Exactly. The problem is timescale - short-term calming effect -> long-term increase in baseline anxiety and craving. And thus the cycle repeats.

In the short term, you might see better outcomes with pure vibecoding...but in the long term, when you're mentally burnt out, cynical, and losing motivation, that's a bad outcome b…

I created DecayBlock, mainly to help people stay focussed online but also to teach myself JavaScript. I've been using it for the past few months and it's massively boosted my produ…

Like many of us, I struggle with staying focused and avoiding distractions while browsing the web. I’ve tried all the website blockers out there – Blocksite, Freedom, you name it. …

Like many of us, I struggle with staying focused and avoiding distractions while browsing the web. I’ve tried all the website blockers out there – Blocksite, Freedom, you name it. …

Like many of us, I struggle with staying focused and avoiding distractions while browsing the web. I’ve tried all the website blockers out there – Blocksite, Freedom, you name it. …

Slightly tangential, but we recently published an algorithm aimed at addressing the paperclip maximizer problem: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07462 Curious what others think about th…

Hey everyone, Our team recently published a paper introducing a tool to reduce echo chamber effects on social media. Essentially, we’ve developed an “allostatic regulator”, grounde…

Yes, this is flawed legislation, and yes kids will find ways to bypass these protections. But I think this is a step in the right direction. There is clear evidence of the harms ca…

This is a critical space for progressing AI in science right now. Once we have algorithms that can process charts and interpret data, our ability to integrate scientific informatio…

We published a preprint last year with an algorithm for content restriction that YouTube might find useful: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3708350/v1 Essentially it's a …