My solution to the problem described here was to l never download Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, or Tiktok. And, when I watched YouTube shorts, I promised myself that I would always watch each video at least once through, sometimes more. And look at the comments if it was a good video. This was back in late 2023, way before I discovered LessWrong.
I had been lucky enough to hear about his studies showing that scrolling was bad for your attention span. Many of my fellow high schoolers weren't so lucky.
My headcanon is that someone stepped in from the Wizarding fic version of the Spider-Verse to drop that little canon event seed in Harry's mind. Even if he's wisdom incarnate, he still has to meet Hermione.
Man, we're only on Chapter 5 we already have a glazer arms race between Draco and Harry of titanic proportions. This might be the best work of fiction I've ever consumed.
Why did you use the first person perspective to describe ChatGPT's "thought process" in the last section?