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As children, humans are receiving a torrent of new information all the time. For hundreds of thousands of years, the torrent slows as the human becomes an adole
by randallsquared 3y ago
As children, humans are receiving a torrent of new information all the time. For hundreds of thousands of years, the torrent slows as the human becomes an adolescent, puberty kicks off, and then they have children as the product of the latest new sensation. All that is upended, now. Not only are people continuing to have an available torrent of information into their twenties, but now it is possible to just never stop, so the transition to the next stage of life doesn't happen for more and more, and we just stay (functionally) children into the thirties, forties, or later, after which it's too late for more than half of us.
Not sure how seriously I take this. :)