Comment by thin_carapace
2 days ago
"give me a boy until he is seven and I will tell you the man he becomes"
there will be at least 1 entire generation of western kids that spectated short form content on screens since the moment of birth. based on aristotle, this entire generation is going to be retarded. the EU legislature in question enables legal spectation of content exchanged by a generation of the retarded. the optimal path forward seems to be ensuring that the next generation is not retarded, otherwise human extinction will be rapidly accelerated. I don't see how corporate destruction of individual privacy is going to help ensure that the next generation is not retarded.
Why just western kids? Cell phone and tablet use by little kids in Asia is on a whole other level.
The content children in Asia are exposed to seems to be entirely different in nature. For instance, with Tiktok: it intentionally pushes brainrot content for western users, while in China it pushes educational and in general positive content. Speaking only from what I've read on the subject, and I'm entirely willing to accept that I'm wrong about that, but the point remains that the screens aren't the issue, it's the content on them that is.
did you read any studies that accounted for brain rot short form content vs non brain rot short form content? from my n=1 sample, this content format is universally destructive, regardless as to specific information conveyed
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I have no experience with the way children are raised in asia and am horrified that this phenomenon is not constrained to one particular region
Why did you think it was?
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Why will basing them on Aristotle make them retarded?
the opening quote is attributed to aristotle
Ok but the opening quote doesn't say "I agree with this poster that these kids will be retarded"
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