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This isn't even remotely what the article is about, how did you arrive at such a misleading tldr? The article talks about diluting the human experience and problems with instant gratification.


People just paint their existing prejudices over the article, often without even reading it.


Instant gratification is a key part of what turns someone into a nerd. You need a repeated exposure to something on demand to become a nerd for it.


I don't think this theory holds any water. You can be a fossil nerd without ever finding any interesting fossils yourself, there is no instant gratification and no on demand availability. There are countless other counterexamples.


You can still obsessively look up content for fossils and think or read about them all the time.


Historically this wasn't the case and we had nerds all the same.




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