| Here's what worked for me: 1) Deleted all social media accounts, deleted apps and logged out of anything that has what you might call a newsfeed (including RSS). 1.1) Switched all important notifications to email. 2) Uninstalled the web browser from my phone. 3) Stopped reading the news and blocked my most frequently visited sites using parental controls. Instead of reading the news I just ask an AI (Grok is good at this) to summarize the latest headlines and I can ask any many follow up questions as I’d like. The unifying theme is letting go of the idea of “missing something”. You don’t need to keep up with your friends online, you don’t need to keep up with the news, you don’t need to scroll to find inspiration. You can find all those things offline. But the hard part is knowing how much things I've found online have contributed meaningfully to my life. For that reason alone I'm considering this an experiment. What will it be like to do this for 6 months, or a year? What will I want to go back to? What won't I miss? 4 weeks in and my daily lived experience is noticeably different. I feel different when I'm walking to the coffee shop, or working, or driving the kids to school. |
So just to make sure I'm understanding you - you think it's a good idea to cut yourself off from the outside world and then proceed to get your news solely from an AI that is known to be actively manipulated by its CEO to output disinformation? If I wanted to immerse myself in a false reality, this would probably be the best possible way to do it. If you are seriously doing this, please stop.