I was thinking about how lightphone 3 is basically a all or nothing solution to internet addiction and there exists an ideal where we have all the convenience of modern phones but without the addiction and I got thinking that properly fully functioning digital ai agents are a good use case here, we can reap the benefits of certain things such as access to browsing endlessly but with combing that aligns us to our goals we define in some format somewhere.
This is loosely what I sorta did on my phone awhile back and its been pretty awesome, there definitely exists a way to push the idea even further and make it better.
Right now I’m basically at a point with it where I have the bulk of the structure in place but it doesn’t have the alignment aspect because I don’t have some sort of immediate block to doing things that aren’t in alignment, the closest I have is a minimal launcher which I can get to most apps are not visible unless I explicitly find them besides a few recents and a few alternative apps which make vital internet use cases more in line with this goal such as using the grayjay app for youtube and basically half the time when I browse the internet I am doing it through an ai app in some way that saves me time whether its more basic googling or more complex problem solving.
So I’m most of the way there bit wondering if anyone has ideas for making this better.
Edit: why are people downvoting an idea generation thread lol, do y’all like internet addiction and loss of self alignment? Or is it purely just that I whispered the word ai
I keep phone usage low by keeping busy, I’m either working or doing hobby, I never used tiktok and I got rid of instagram, I only use YouTube a lot but I usually put on a long video and mostly just listen to it. Most of my feed is educational like engineering or science which I find really fun.
Also I’m not some 60 year old, I’m in my early twenties so I am of the same age as most of the people with these issues. Replace addictions with things you consider as productive, and train your will power to not break under the pressure/urge.
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I keep phone usage low by keeping busy, I’m either working or doing hobby, I never used tiktok and I got rid of instagram, I only use YouTube a lot but I usually put on a long video and mostly just listen to it. Most of my feed is educational like engineering or science which I find really fun.
Also I’m not some 60 year old, I’m in my early twenties so I am of the same age as most of the people with these issues. Replace addictions with things you consider as productive, and train your will power to not break under the pressure/urge.