So, normally I don’t take any notes from the Let Grow blog (formerly the Free Range Kids blog), but this time I found some articles particularly relevant to the typical subjects in my blog.
250 Things to Do Instead of Homework! Some of the subjects I cover in my blog are very closely related to some of the subjects in this list.
20190208/https://letgrow.org/250-things-to-do-instead-of-homework/
Out of a comment in this article came a discussion about Google controlling you through YouTube. Yeah, the argument is interesting and believable in some sense, but you know what? I think we kind of already know that people who are watching YouTube might just click through anything at random, regardless of how well planned out it is on the side of Google. It’s from a state of reduced consciousness regardless of the displayed content, simply a new form of watching random TV channels. So, in a sense, the purported claims need to be evaluated with a control group and an experimental group to validate the hypothesis presented.
20190208/https://letgrow.org/safety-tips-guaranteed-to-drive-you-insane/
20190208/https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-yuval-noah-harari-tristan-harris/