ar Wars was new you did, right? It was like mind-blowing. Wow. You got a little dopamine hit just seeing what they could do was a dopamine hit. But now there's no dopamine hit because they can do everything.

So imagine you're watching a movie and it's not the first time you've ever seen AI and there's a character walking through a complicated cityscape. It's all done by AI. Are you still impressed? No, because it's not the first year of AI. The first year is all pretty amazing. By the second year it's just what's there. It's just background. So you're not going to want to watch the movie because you're not going to want to watch any movie because there won't be any movie with a three-act structure no matter who makes it, humans or AI. Nobody cares.

But in the short run the movie makers, because they still make money, they can kind of force you to see a movie by brainwashing you. Literally we're still at that point where if the advertising is good enough we all have to watch it. It's like you're forced to. Dune 2. I don't want to watch Dune 2 but the advertising got me. I know I'm not going to like it. I know I'm not, even though it's exactly the kind of thing I used to love. You know, good sci-fi movie. But no.

So yes, phones ruin movies and there's no coming back.

We keep talking about the causes of kids being more depressed and having mental health problems. We always think, "Ah, it's the phones. It's the phones. It's the phones." And I think it's mostly the phones. But