He makes a good point that there’s systemic issues that need to be addressed, however I think periodic social media “fasting” has been fairly valuable in my own life and I’ve been encouraging others around me to try it as well. If nothing else it gives you a “baseline” for your own personal reference.
Great article. Other discussions on AI training consistently discuss how data collected now from social media might be poisoned and can’t inherently be trusted with all the new chatbots and that RLHF will need to be used making it that much more expensive and difficult. The final line of this article puts the problem of data poisoning into full perspective.
I typically take a bit over a week off every 6 weeks or so. What works well for me is hitting the city library and just forcing myself to get through a couple books. Any hobby is probably good enough.