Cal Newport

I get it.

I can't just ignore stuff, right?

Like I actually have to do it.

I think that's a great idea.

I think something like that works well if you put that accountability aside

uh before it and you put it after it that scares people by the way though that really does scare people uh because you actually have to do the work and this is the thing which really social media and smartphones killed this way worse ai is going to make this worse but that was a big inflection point in terms of losing our comfort with concentration that got really bad once we got algorithmically optimized content we really got used to that and so it's scary if you just go to a company and say here's the new plan boss

We're going to have a meeting in the morning.

You got to tell me what you're going to do for the next five hours.

And then you got to do it.

We're going to check in after five hours and see how it went.

That's a nightmare for a lot of people.

That is like, oh, God, I don't know what I'm going to do.

I know about it, yeah.

So maybe AI will help us.

It could basically chastise us.

Yeah, but no one believes that the chatbot interface is the future of AI.

The boosters, the skeptics, the moderates.

There's an emerging consensus that we're going to look back at this current moment where we interact with AI by typing into a chat window.

That's going to be like the Usenet newsgroups at the beginning of the Internet.

It was like a cool thing early on that showed the promise of the Internet earlier.