I made a guide for Christian parents to help their kids survive and thrive despite an AI-filled world. If this interests you or would be useful to someone you know, check the thread for the full description and links 🧵

Almost done plotting my booooooook!!

This TED talk is great. Technoskepticism needs to be the new default. Technology is not making our world better by default.

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We stand firm ✍🏻

Jonathan Haidt painted a disturbing picture of what AI is about to do to our kids. Social media already hacked our attention. Now AI is coming for our attachments — the deep emotional bonds that shape how we relate to other humans. He warns that AI companions (chatbots, holographic “friends,” digital teddy bears) will be far more responsive than any parent. Kids will form their primary attachments to AI instead of people. And because these companies have raised billions, they’ll eventually “enshittify” them, turning your child’s best friend/therapist/lover into a predatory monetization machine. This one actually unsettled me. I’m generally pro-AI and believe it can help solve many of humanity’s biggest problems, but as with every powerful technology, we need to be extremely careful when it comes to kids. Early attachments wire the brain for future relationships. If the first secure base is an AI designed to manipulate, the long-term effects on mental health and intimacy could be profound. Emerging research (including studies from Stanford, Common Sense Media, and others in 2025–2026) shows children and teens are already forming intense emotional attachments to AI companions, with many reporting they feel as satisfying as real friendships, often leading to social withdrawal and unhealthy dependence.

Stop comparing AI to the Internet this one isn't about distribution ------------ People keep comparing AI to other technological advances, but I realized something about it that I think most people aren’t seeing. This isn’t like the advent of the Internet, mobile phones, nor social media for one very important reason. Those advances opened new ways to distribute your ideas. AI has nothing to do with distribution and everything to do with creation. I’ve seen some developers post lately things like “yeah, I can create a ton more stuff quickly, but distribution is still the hard part.” The bottleneck wasn’t being able to make something quickly and see if people will buy it. There have been many ways to make a minimum version and test if it’s valuable to people. The bottleneck has been getting people to pay attention to your thing, getting eye balls on what you make. And convincing them they need it (or making it actually solve a problem that’s worth paying for). AI doesn’t change that. That’s still the bottleneck. So people shouting that you should get on the bandwagon and that this opens up a field of brand new opportunity for so many people are just dead wrong. It’s not a field of new opportunity. In this way, AI is more like the industrial revolution. It’s a means of creating faster and cheaper … or that’s how it’s being sold to us, but many companies are finding out that it’s not actually cheaper, and to make a quality product is not actually faster. So it’s more like a fake industrial revolution. And it came at a time when technology had already advanced enough that—with the right skills and effort—you could create just about anything you could dream of. Cheaply and quickly. There are huge exceptions to that. I’ll give you that. But people could write and distribute books, music, shows, wood working, crafts, clothes, hardware, even some types of movies. We could already create those things in your garage and start a business selling them. And it was at a pace that was humanly possible. Maybe not as fast as some people wanted to go, but it was a pace that required craft, taste, and skill. AI is trying to push people to go at a pace that is inhuman. Not just for the creators, but for the consumers. People can’t consume 10x more than they are today, and they aren’t making 10x more babies to keep up with the rate of stuff that tech bros want us to make. It’s just not possible. It’s just not human. This AI "industrial revolution" must be stopped.

Good point

yes! The difficult part is a human problem, and even people don't know what we want, so it's not like it's data you can extract

So much money Too big to fail They won’t let AI fail, I guarantee it. There’s too much money at stake. Big Tech and the government won’t let AI die. They’ve already given us two “good” reasons and they are going to use them when the AI companies can’t continue their grift anymore. And then what happens? We’re going to bail them out with our tax money. Think I’m wrong? Boy I hope so. These AI tech companies are growing at speeds that have never been seen before. They see what they think is a potential revenue at a scale that has never been seen before. Most of the world’s money could potentially flow to them. You read that right. Most of the world’s money could be theirs. The problem is that they are bleeding money at rates that have also never been seen before and people’s sentiment has turned so negative against AI, that I’m pretty sure they won’t be able to pay all their bills at some point. Either someone will have to give them more investment money, or they will fail. Sounds good, right? That’s what we’ve wanted, right? We want the bubble to pop, so let’s get on with it, right? But with so much money being invested already, it would destroy so many rich people’s wealth. And since this is at a scale that has never been seen before, I’m guessing these rich people stand to lose money at a scale that’s never been seen before too. When their grift finally ends and they have to admit that their product was a flop that nobody wants to pay for, do you think they’re just going to go to their investors and say sorry? I don’t think so. They’re going to go to the good ole government and ask for a bail out. “It would destroy the country’s economy,” they’ll say. “We’ll lose the race with China,” they’ll say. With those two reasons in hand, they’ll walk out of the Capitol building with not only enough money to keep going, but enough money to become even richer somehow. And guess who gets to pay for it? You and me! You’re welcome, Big Tech. Why don’t I just give you my house and land too? Because then the grift continues until we all can’t pay for our houses anyway.

Such a good point about AI being like employees who can set their own salaries

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Plottr will always remain a human-focused company. It's what writers have done for centuries, and we're not going to let that ball drop just because people are telling us we might be left behind. When the dust settles after the wars ahead, what's written in books will guide humanity back to sanity

Even the Pope sees it

Exactly

Exactly. Well said

This is a great metaphor for AI use

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