Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

What on earth are you talking about? Kids are designed to digest immense complexity.

Adults and kids are both fairly stupid in front of a system that is designed to exploit the stimulus seeking behaviour that served us so well over our evolutionary history

This is another really, really bad meme. It's an excuse for people to never confront the reasons they enjoy or desire low status or low social value activities, offered at the cost of calling themselves, their friends and their children stupid.

Are you just objecting to the word "stupid"? It's not controversial to say we aren't well adapted to intelligently engineered environments built on value systems that differ from our own (and I mean the basic stuff here like getting food, looking after young, etc.), is it?

Why do you believe that? Is there some external reference for "intelligent" use of tools? "Stupid" is a poor descriptor for the thing you're pointing at, but my objection is to the implication that human beings fully lack agency, whether they're seeking food or trolling twitter.

I get the feeling you fundamentally object to the notion of a good use of one’s time. Is this just with respect to kids or adults too? The rejoinder “but people like trolling” is in a sense unanswerable but people liked public executions too

I think it’s reasonable to be suspicious of any designation of time well spent, but that doesn’t mean we won’t look back and judge all the same

I don't know why you're dodging my question or concerns, here; they're critical to what you're saying now. I don't think anyone is in a good position to evaluate a "good" or "bad" use of time if they think they're merely caught in inescapable evolutionary loops.