[Aerbil313]

The case of smartphones is unique. There is a war waged by corporations with hundreds of thousands of employees to take the most of your attention out from you (for sweet ad money), with attention engineers working on new designs and innovations all the time. I don't think that is a battle %95 of people can win. Just look around to people. I avoid fighting the battle by making heavy use of screen time features to ban all un-absolutely-necessary features (apps, websites) and whitelist only a small amount of apps and websites. And I make those restrictions unchangeable by myself, otherwise it becomes pointless.

[Thoeu388]

> take the most of your attention... with attention engineers working

Typical victimhood conspiracy theory.

> I avoid fighting the battle by making heavy use of screen time features to ban

So you avoid that by spending more time on your phone. And someone has parental control over your phone...?!

[Aerbil313]

As said below, it’s a job not a conspiracy theory. Heavy use means I use the features extensively. This results in me effectively using my phone only for necessary things, no games, no social media. I don’t understand why you thought I’d spending more time when I use these.

No one has parental control over my phone except me. I have a system which can enter the parental control password (acting as a keyboard over bluetooth) when certain conditions are met, such as when I enter a certain geographical area. The difficulty of having to walk half an hour to unlock the password prevents me from impulsively unlocking parental controls to doomscroll. The system is still under consctruction though.

Working smarter to avoid “using willpower” is a thing since ancient Greeks: https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Odysseus-and-the-S... I pretty much don’t believe in the whole willpower thing (being like a muscle) though.

[rmilejczz]

That’s not a conspiracy theory it’s a job