Tornado Alley (PROG)

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LOL Part of the fun of taking the time to read long'uns as that is the thinking, "this is good, in taking my time
on this one i'm actually resisting some of the negatives of spending so much time on the internet while
at the same time learning some more about them."

While reading the article i did think "like concussion, c'mon you gotta be kidding, it's obvious you (the article) have never experienced one."

I thought in this case the AI was easier to accept than the article, and this ending felt spot on:

calling it “brain damage” or “like a concussion” is not scientifically supported

A cleaner takeaway:

The internet isn’t frying your brain—but it is training it, and not always in ways you’d choose deliberately.

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For you, me and others who post here?

A cleaner way to think about it

Your education is like:

Owning a high-performance engine

Modern platforms are like:

Driving in heavy, chaotic traffic

The engine still matters—but the environment can still wear it down if you’re in it constantly.

1) What your background actually protects

Durable reasoning habits

Training in reading, writing, and argument analysis builds what psychologists call critical thinking. That tends to:

reduce susceptibility to obvious misinformation
improve detection of weak arguments
slow down snap judgments

This is one of the strongest buffers you have.

Knowledge scaffolding

A well-educated brain has richer mental models (schemas). That helps you:

place new information in context
notice when something “doesn’t fit”
resist being pulled entirely by algorithmic framing
Verbal and analytic resilience

Skills tied to fluid intelligence and especially crystallized intelligence (accumulated knowledge) tend to hold up well with age. That gives you:

better comprehension of complex material
more resistance to shallow, slogan-level thinking

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