Dr. David Eagleman

So I'm a little torn on it.

The other thing that we've all noticed, though, is that people don't seem to be happy when they spend time scrolling on it.

they're kind of tempted to do it, but when they finish, they never feel like, wow, that was really a great experience.

They're kind of drained from it.

So in that sense, it has the characteristics of an addiction where you keep going back to it, even though you're not getting the high from it that you did the first time.

This is precisely why all these kids have the opportunity, I think, to be so much smarter than we were.

Yeah, I'm just super enthusiastic about it.

And now with AI, it can be even a whole different level.

I mentioned this thing before about using AI to debate, but just even in general, just saying, hey, I'm curious about this.

How does the flying buttress work or something?

Hey, chat GPT.

Hey, Claude.

And you get the answer.

Wow, what a great opportunity for kids growing up.

Oh, sure.

Everything I fix, I learn how to do it on YouTube first, yeah.

Very cool.

Now I'm using AI to do it.

I've got this lighting thing and I couldn't figure out.

So I took pictures and I said, what am I looking at here and where's the box and the transformer or whatever?