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Regardless of the content on the screen, the screen time is bad for kids. Even desiring pixel-represented "data" for this fact that is obviously observable irl is itself perhaps a …

The fastest, most surefire way to nuke your child's brain is to give them a screen. There is certainly room for software to design a curriculum for the parent or teacher to use. We…

parent-to-parent: this is slippery slope territory just imo, I can't control you. God bless your family :)

"Don't take away agency!" proceeds to recommend the government take away agency the best thing that can be done right now, rather than waiting for a broken government to fix our pr…

"don't do drugs, kids" is essentially my message, do you agree or not? idc how potentially beneficial screens may be, in the future (now?) we will start treating screens like smoki…

The best defense is to not introduce it to them. not a perfect defense, but a very good one.

"If we can make cocaine healthier for everyone, that's a big deal" technically true, but also, don't use cocaine. I get parents use it to babysit their kids. That's bad parenting. …

"rural homeschooling Christians" Hey i like that!

Hm, what do you mean by "extremely limited and supervised"? I think absolute 0 is best for as long as possible. If you never introduce them to the drug, they'll never have the crav…

Actually, you can. If parents are somehow powerless by the time their kids achieve some independence, again, that's bad parenting.

yes, several, lmao

kids simply shouldn't be looking at a screen, AI-generated or not. Screen time for kids (and adults for that matter!) should be way way scaled back. That falls on the parents. Bad …

This is what's called "Majoring in the Minors" in Christianity. Neanderthals are no longer around. What's important is treating humans with a special dignity. If you start equating…

Mainstream Christian thought has only permitted humans to be imago dei. Animals, plants, and objects made by humans, like computers, certainly do not qualify. There is the open que…

The low point of Christianity after the council of Nicaea was the "Dark Ages" (early middle ages) and the high point is circa 2000. The exact opposite of what we tend to think.

Culpability is and always will be the limiting factor in AI adoption. As humans, we need another human to blame when things go wrong. Especially in situations that are catastrophic…

"For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external …

Again, that is a simple observation of fact. No counterfactual needed. I said it had confounding factors, and I offered hypotheses I asked you for alternative hypotheses and you've…

I'm not even proposing that growth would have been higher without "technology". I said information technology has not increased productivity growth compared to the past. This is an…

There is no counterfactual needed. Productivity growth has declined, despite the expectation that software would accelerate productivity. I'm asking you why this didn't happen.

The data clearly shows that productivity growth is flat or even declining. What is your accounting of why software hasn't offset those numbers?

Productivity growth. If you take rolling averages from this chart, it clearly demonstrate higher productivity growth before the adoption of software. This is a well established fac…

Productivity metrics were better when businesses were run on just pen and paper. Of course, there could be many confounding factors, but there are also many reasons why this could …

It's a hypothesis that "smarter" AI models, ie GPT-5.5, may not be a great boon to productivity. Given that this is the raison d'etre of AI models, and improving them, I don't see …

It's possible that "smarter" AI won't lead to more productivity in the economy. Why? Because software and "information technology" generally didn't increase productivity over the p…