Do clocks change your brain? Do books change your brain? Does TV change your brain? Does the internet change your brain? Does social media change your brain? Yes. Of course they do. Everything does.
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Replying to @drenerbas
Depends on question interpretation. If you're looking for biological effects contingent on neuroplasticity or something, it's a lot of "meh." But, they all powerfully affect your behavioral repertoire and information environment, so I tend to think they are 'yeses'.
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Replying to @generativist
Argh twitter threading
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Replying to @drenerbas
Oh haha. I think that's the thing I want to spend more time doing: properly partitioning the effects into desirable and not so much. And, there are desirable ones! Without twitter, I'd have fewer conversations with smart people, as I'm doing exactly now ;)
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Replying to @generativist
lol that plot of sleep deprivation and functional intelligence is steeply downward sloped, and oddly correlated with twitter activity
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