Someones probably already doing this but just a general accountability coach that also knows everything you do online.
It begins by prompting you:
"What are your goals for the month of September?"
Lets say you for example say
"I want to write every day"
Once a week it will call you out on all the things you're doing that run counter to that goal. It doesnt have to brow beat you (unless you want it to). Just "you spent this many minutes scrolling x and substack notes this week. Could you have been writing instead? Was there anything there worth writing about? Perhaps you could write about that. Maybe trade half your scrolling time for writing time next week?"
And it just does this for anything. If the unproductive activity is not on your phone it can just ask you. "How many bongs did you smoke today? What have you tried to help you cut down?"
Ah man this is so claustrophobic! It do be like that, these technologies do draw us and contain us in these predictable ways. This year I’m confronted with all these self destructive addictions, tech being a big one.
The addictive element is in ‘catching’ the identification.
Sometimes being able to put down self consciousness is a real relief.
There's a lot going on right now in relational AI. Tons of opportunities. I'm curious about nursing and caretaking chatbots for the elderly and people with medical conditions, for ex.
After reading this, the people who said some ideas are too dangerous to express may have had a point.
this is diabolical
Someones probably already doing this but just a general accountability coach that also knows everything you do online.
It begins by prompting you:
"What are your goals for the month of September?"
Lets say you for example say
"I want to write every day"
Once a week it will call you out on all the things you're doing that run counter to that goal. It doesnt have to brow beat you (unless you want it to). Just "you spent this many minutes scrolling x and substack notes this week. Could you have been writing instead? Was there anything there worth writing about? Perhaps you could write about that. Maybe trade half your scrolling time for writing time next week?"
And it just does this for anything. If the unproductive activity is not on your phone it can just ask you. "How many bongs did you smoke today? What have you tried to help you cut down?"
Ah man this is so claustrophobic! It do be like that, these technologies do draw us and contain us in these predictable ways. This year I’m confronted with all these self destructive addictions, tech being a big one.
The addictive element is in ‘catching’ the identification.
Sometimes being able to put down self consciousness is a real relief.
There's a lot going on right now in relational AI. Tons of opportunities. I'm curious about nursing and caretaking chatbots for the elderly and people with medical conditions, for ex.