Anthropic's Claude argues the smartphone-driven collapse of unstructured time suppresses the brain's default mode network

@PromptLLM Wow! Kimi has a bit more takes on that

@PromptLLM This is why low IQ people love noise and constant stimulation. Those background thoughts don’t exist. You’ll find they often make speakerphone calls in public spaces with conversations about nothing

@PromptLLM Have you noticed that music genres, mainstream fashion, and culture in general hasn't really changed much in 25 years?

Boredom and isolation are the mothers of invention. 👈

@PromptLLM I agree with this tbh

Life before smartphones and the Internet was better imo

@PromptLLM @nikstankovic_ Pretty much the same observations from Grok as well. In short the loss of human innocence with the emergence of internet and mobile devices.

Boredom is one human state I think we need to get more of nowadays. Everyone is constantly distraced, and without a doubt I was too. 10h+ of screen time a day. But lately I quit all social media apps, and allowed myself to be more bored. Now I know why I had such great ideas as a child.

@PromptLLM Some of my favourite memories were sitting on trains and planes before we had always on devices 20 years ago and just imagining all the possibilities for my life. It truly transformed me.

@PromptLLM Only now I am realizing that this is probably one more thing that sets me apart from the normgroids. Do people seriously not just sit with their thoughts at the end of the day?

@PromptLLM The number of humans who benefit from these boredom killers outweigh the number who would be inspired by that boredom to create anything at all.

@PromptLLM Not a crazy take. Life before internet & phones was 100 times better than it is today. Everyone is addicted to technology & it has killed their souls. You hardly see anyone appreciate the beautiful little things anymore. Everyone is just glued to goyslop devices all the time.

@CartallicaX1 @PromptLLM i wrote about this! in the context of the music industry specifically https://open.substack.com/pub/ceemilan/p/boredom-is-whoopin-everybody-ass?r=50bac&utm_medium=x

@PromptLLM And this response is crazy or groundbreaking because...? Pretty much every op-ed or editorial I read says the same thing and this opinion is practically cliched at this point.

@PromptLLM There is a great book about this. Comfort Crisis

@PromptLLM That's not a "Claude take", that's a social scientist's take that was used to train Claude.

@PromptLLM The proles are only just now finding out about the elegance of silence

This is Sherry Turkle’s argument from her 2015 book “Reclaiming Conversation” — smartphones killing boredom/solitude, which the brain needs for reflection and creativity. The DMN mechanism itself was discovered by Raichle back in 2001. Good summary, just over a decade old, not a “crazy take.”

@PromptLLM ...which is why we know all the best thinkers were D&D players.

@PromptLLM Gemini says we're definitely simmering 😮

@PromptLLM I actually love this answer

@PromptLLM Stupid asf to think boomers weren’t using crosswords and shit to avoid boredom at the bus stop gtfo