I can't even begin to imagine how any of this is going to increase attention, focus and creativity. In fact I imagine exactly the opposite. More minds down more rabbit holes, mostly porn.
“In a world of infinite content, we’ve become expert curators.” I teach art in high school, and this can’t be further from my experience. Even photography is in decline, given students ‘curate’ media in a very small screen, for a short amount of time, which involves they look only at the center of the image, within a stream of randomised content. Plots of that “longer content” are getting simplified due to ‘second screen syndrome’. Plus the decline of homework engagement and social skills. I disagree with the pretty much all the premise, in this millennialy long comment.
It's not AI that will destroy the USA as we know it, it is instead z- and alpha-generations desire to not have families with children.* Indeed, as all economists know, a civilization that does not continue to grow, long-term, it eventually collapses since as the expanding majority of the population ages, they stop consuming material stuff.
Personally, I don't care since the Rapture will occur way before the latter creates a USA economic strength problem.
* The current family fertility rate is only 1.6; replacement ratio must be minimum 2.5 to maintain an economy without immigration)
AI creates imaginary worlds outside the purview of humanity. It is and will continue to weaponized at the expense of the real world, both physically and existentially, by a few wealthy individuals unfit to determine our future.
Just a excited person for world models stretching the reality without filling gaps convincingly. Arguments heavily rely on the download counts … I found the connection between attention spans and world models little weak.
Interesting read, but I’m skeptical. Getting lost in a detailed AI world isn't the same as deep focus—it's just a more immersive form of distraction. Real focus happens in the real world, with real people and real consequences, not in a simulation designed to be perfectly engaging. This feels less like a solution and more like a prettier trap.
Brilliant reframing of the Gen Z attention debate. The distinction between "can't focus" and "won't focus on low-value content" is huge, and world models demanding spatial reasoning could flip everything. I'm skeptical tho about the hybrid future being equitable. If richer kids get early access to build worlds while others just consume them, we're basically recreating the digital divide but with way deeper cognitive implications. Already seeing this with tools like Cursor where the gap isn't just acces but understanding system architectures.
I see the hopes but, unfortunately, noy a chance to very good endings. I imagine things to just get worse from this bad-already point; people not wanting to think for themselves, spending too much time consuming bad and nonsense content (and not understanding themselves enough to understand WHY they reach for it as entertainment; just like now), and also, I don't know, bad for work and art too. I mean, many jobs could disappear (but we already got this with the AI boom), but also art. It's a fundamental form of human expression in my opinion, it touches us and make us think truly, but AI is taking (and I fear will take, completely) the real magic of it, which is the intention and emotion.
I think your article is a business idea. I still think what they pay attention to is more key.
Expanding awareness is important and generative creativity does exercise the mind . Is that the goal?
I think the issue with Gen Z that is interesting to think about is , how they aren’t paying attention to us . I think thats important and of concern .
The concerns with that are that we are concerned for their well being without evidence that they are consolidating their learnings and experience thus far .
I can't even begin to imagine how any of this is going to increase attention, focus and creativity. In fact I imagine exactly the opposite. More minds down more rabbit holes, mostly porn.
“In a world of infinite content, we’ve become expert curators.” I teach art in high school, and this can’t be further from my experience. Even photography is in decline, given students ‘curate’ media in a very small screen, for a short amount of time, which involves they look only at the center of the image, within a stream of randomised content. Plots of that “longer content” are getting simplified due to ‘second screen syndrome’. Plus the decline of homework engagement and social skills. I disagree with the pretty much all the premise, in this millennialy long comment.
Imagine combining these worldbuilding tools with Augmented Reality. Kids would spend most of their days outside. 🎉
It's not AI that will destroy the USA as we know it, it is instead z- and alpha-generations desire to not have families with children.* Indeed, as all economists know, a civilization that does not continue to grow, long-term, it eventually collapses since as the expanding majority of the population ages, they stop consuming material stuff.
Personally, I don't care since the Rapture will occur way before the latter creates a USA economic strength problem.
* The current family fertility rate is only 1.6; replacement ratio must be minimum 2.5 to maintain an economy without immigration)
AI creates imaginary worlds outside the purview of humanity. It is and will continue to weaponized at the expense of the real world, both physically and existentially, by a few wealthy individuals unfit to determine our future.
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Just a excited person for world models stretching the reality without filling gaps convincingly. Arguments heavily rely on the download counts … I found the connection between attention spans and world models little weak.
Interesting read, but I’m skeptical. Getting lost in a detailed AI world isn't the same as deep focus—it's just a more immersive form of distraction. Real focus happens in the real world, with real people and real consequences, not in a simulation designed to be perfectly engaging. This feels less like a solution and more like a prettier trap.
Brilliant reframing of the Gen Z attention debate. The distinction between "can't focus" and "won't focus on low-value content" is huge, and world models demanding spatial reasoning could flip everything. I'm skeptical tho about the hybrid future being equitable. If richer kids get early access to build worlds while others just consume them, we're basically recreating the digital divide but with way deeper cognitive implications. Already seeing this with tools like Cursor where the gap isn't just acces but understanding system architectures.
I see the hopes but, unfortunately, noy a chance to very good endings. I imagine things to just get worse from this bad-already point; people not wanting to think for themselves, spending too much time consuming bad and nonsense content (and not understanding themselves enough to understand WHY they reach for it as entertainment; just like now), and also, I don't know, bad for work and art too. I mean, many jobs could disappear (but we already got this with the AI boom), but also art. It's a fundamental form of human expression in my opinion, it touches us and make us think truly, but AI is taking (and I fear will take, completely) the real magic of it, which is the intention and emotion.
The links to the papers on social media effects and short-form content are either incorrect or broken. Please update them.
Yikes!
I think your article is a business idea. I still think what they pay attention to is more key.
Expanding awareness is important and generative creativity does exercise the mind . Is that the goal?
I think the issue with Gen Z that is interesting to think about is , how they aren’t paying attention to us . I think thats important and of concern .
The concerns with that are that we are concerned for their well being without evidence that they are consolidating their learnings and experience thus far .