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Comment by vconnor

3 hours ago

> I am more and more convinced that young people have a much better understanding of technology and especially its impact on society.

People are taking your words to the literal meaning and miss the forest for the trees.

Kids aren't conditioned by society and are more in touch with their instinctual drives than adult people. They are much more keen to perceive that a piece of technology isn't "good" or "natural" or "desirable" without being able to form a reasoned argument. Any kid grown on an iPad is able to tell that it's an unnatural environment, and less preferable than growing up among and being cared by other humans.

It's a bit like that IQ curve meme, where the uneducated person (the children in this case) and genius agree that the modern world has gone too far, while the average adult self-indulgently defends our modern world, crying that we should be grateful to technology and if it weren't for it we would be dying of dysentery and we shouldn't resist AI but just learn to embrace it, yadda yadda.

I'd rather trust the instincts of a kid than the rationalizations of many adults, in this case.

Wonderful writeup, I couldn't have formulated it better! Honestly, I never expected my comment to gain traction but I find it interesting that it had such resonance in both directions.

In a way I am happy I left so much to the imagination for open interpretation.