Yea I remember Rogan bringing up the point that if aliens came here and saw us staring into phones like we are, they would mistake the phones for the masters of the planet, not humans. If it weren't for the work I'm doing + lifestyle I'm in I would engineer my life to look at phones the bare minimum.

I've been reading the Screwtape Letters as recommended by @bitcoinplebdev on @Car 's podcast. The premise of the book is a series of letters between demons scheming on how to get a man's life off track. You could make an argument that in a sense smartphones are like demons assigned to us to take advantage of our lower, most base instincts and lead us astray.

There's a significant danger of AI being a more sophisticated form of that type of demon with the added bonus of the total subversion of your privacy. For that reason I created CASCDR which I hope will be a place where AI can serve genuine human needs. Luke & I are building it in a way that preserves privacy and fosters the decentralized, free open markets that I believe are needed to make it a force for good. If you're interested this talk I gave at @PlebLab startup day is a good primer on my vision and what CASCDR is trying to accomplish.