> I don't know, phones are addicting and getting a toddler hooked seems like a disservice.
Phones are not addicting. Algorithmically manipulated services are addicting.
> There's so many educational things the author could be giving their toddler and they're teaching them to have their eyes glued to their screen from such a young age...
Like how to use one's skills and passions to develop a product for their beloved child?
What's new about phones is NOT that things are manipulated so that we want more of it. "News" have been around for centuries and they've always been manipulated to give most people outrageous stuff to consume.
What's new about phones is that A) they are an effectively infinite source of stuff and B) it takes 2 seconds to get them from our pocket.
So you're blaming addiction on optimization by evil services, but in reality the problem are the phones themselves: they make it too easy to "get more".
Phones are not addicting. Algorithmically manipulated services are addicting.
> There's so many educational things the author could be giving their toddler and they're teaching them to have their eyes glued to their screen from such a young age...
Like how to use one's skills and passions to develop a product for their beloved child?