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Are smart phones a Bostromian 'black ball' that just makes everything worse upon being discovered?
They inflicted mobile gaming on the world. They made social media worse I think. Dating apps proliferated. Sleep disruption. Short-form video in an ugly vertical format. People are watching movies on smartphones, it's destroying film. All these companies that make you install their app (it doesn't work).
Almost everything that can be done on a smart phone is done better on a PC or laptop. Cameraphones were good enough for communicating IMO.
Google maps is actually helpful but besides that? 2 factor authentication? Seems like a net negative to me.
I don’t buy the dating app hate. It wasn’t smart phones that ruined the OkCupid model. Women were always going to gravitate to a system where all men are filtered by default and they get to opt-in to who gets the privilege of messaging them.
There was a temporary window wherein there was a structural advantage to being verbose and tech-savy. This was always going to be temporary.
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