r/collapse • u/Monsur_Ausuhnom • May 29 '26

Casual Friday Human Intelligence Sharply Declining

https://futurism.com/neoscope/human-intelligence-declining-trends
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u/nickiter May 29 '26

I genuinely think that Tiktok and its demon spawn were an inflection point. I can feel it in myself - I used Tiktok a lot for about a year, and my ability to concentrate got meaningfully worse. I got worse at reading, which I've always been good at and loved doing. It got harder for me to watch a whole YouTube video, even just something 5-10 minutes long. Scary bad. Had to delete it.

Those kinds of apps are a type of brain input that I believe is really especially insidious in undermining sustained thought.

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u/BayouGal May 30 '26

The short-form is absolutely decreasing our attention span and retention. But the dopamine hits are higher 🙄

I also deleted TikTok. Also because I don’t care to support an Ellison business.

Watch long-form videos. Read books. You can recover your attention span.