Eight billion people currently have this condition, and they’ve all survived so far.

Fair, but there’s no evidence it became a regular part of human culture before the agricultural revolution. Whereas storytelling seems to be an innate social activity, probably as old as language itself.

I think the only two stable states for data are either that it’s private and under your direct control (and in the long run deleted), or it’s fully public (and in the long run accessible by non-proprietary AIs). Any attempt to delegate control to third parties creates an incentive for them to sell it for proprietary AI training.

I think most anthropologists would agree that storytelling is an innate human activity far older than drug use.

That’s like saying “the problem with cancer isn’t the unrestrained tumor growth, it’s the depletion of resources for the rest of the body”—the two go hand in hand.