I wrote about this a few years ago [0]
replyIt's _really_ hard to break the phone habit. I was in a good place for a few years but have recently been spending time on Reddit.
It's not the end of the world. Ultimately I think going back to Reddit is because I recently haven't had the patience to really read, reflect, etc.
For me, as an avid reader of non-fiction books, for learning, i'm starting to question the value of reading them, compared to a good in-depth discussion with an LLM about a subject, together with reading academic papers and long articles/blog posts.
replyAn easy trick nowadays is to simply log out of the accounts. Most social media websites really want you to log in so they become unusable when you log out. Its a good defense in depth strategy.
replyPre-2023 books I presume?
replyI collect books, but have decided to omit the post 2023 ones.
replyHow do you trust anything written after 2023 or so to not be slop? Or even trust the claims that it was written before 2023?
replyI wouldn't blindly trust a brand new author in 2026, but it's very easy to trust an author that has put out good writing in years past. Not hard to find, there has been plenty of great books written after 2023.
replyNew authors however will certainly have to earn trust for a few years now I think.
It's similar with music, if someone puts out their first album in 2026 and has no singles or EPs, no YouTube presence, etc., it's probably slop. If they have a body of work that goes back a few years, easy to trust.
Why does it matter whether the writing is AI generated or not?
replyYou should always be critical of everything you read. I have stopped reading plenty of books after a few chapters when I realized there was little value in it for me.
self-evident quality
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