Help shape your kids' worldview into a healthy one. The internet is a dangerous place. Most adults can't handle it (especially not having their own worldwide megaphone); kids definitely shouldn't be exposed to it without significant and heavy-handed curation.
>We've known for decades that the Human brain doesn't finish developing until around 25 y/o
TBF, the human brain never stops developing. You could even go so far to say that it's not until 27-29 ([or age 30, whatever it takes](https://www.nature.com/articles/nn1008)), since that's the physical peak most athletes hit (and a developed mind is at least equally as important as developed body in athletics). I think the "stops at 25" thing came from a study that saw continued development through 25 year olds, and they didn't look at anyone older.
All that said, the ChatGPT response that "caused" her to take her own life smacks of "Im14AndThisIsDeep" bullshit. If you can't handle that at 19, there's not a lot of hope for you. My guess is she was terminally online long before that, and this was the straw that broke the camel's back.
It's rather a logarithmic curve that starts to plateau, but doesn't actually stop. There is no hard point where development stops in that sense. 25 is only a rough, average point in time.
Aside, the physical development of the brain isn't even what matters. Intelligence (evolutionarily speaking) has the purpose to have specimen change and adapt in runtime (during their lives) rather than be forced to have behavioral changes incurred through multiple generations of evolutionary processes. Normally it's about learning "this type of berries are toxic" rather than whatever humans are able to do.
> My guess is she was terminally online long before that, and this was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Exactly. She was growing up most of her life with the internet and social media, which in itself causes psychological damage. That shit is historically unprecedented. It's rather a matter of forming habits, societal interactions, things perceived from the internet itself, than brain developmental issues.
And people seem to mistake the meaning of "psychological" a bit. Certain scenarios are likely to lead to the same psychological outcomes, just as physical effects - you get cut in the heart, your heart ceases to function, you die. There are deviations, people can survive cuts to their heart and overcome psychological influences, but those are outliers.
Help shape your kids' worldview into a healthy one. The internet is a dangerous place. Most adults can't handle it (especially not having their own worldwide megaphone); kids definitely shouldn't be exposed to it without significant and heavy-handed curation.
>We've known for decades that the Human brain doesn't finish developing until around 25 y/o
TBF, the human brain never stops developing. You could even go so far to say that it's not until 27-29 ([or age 30, whatever it takes](https://www.nature.com/articles/nn1008)), since that's the physical peak most athletes hit (and a developed mind is at least equally as important as developed body in athletics). I think the "stops at 25" thing came from a study that saw continued development through 25 year olds, and they didn't look at anyone older.
All that said, the ChatGPT response that "caused" her to take her own life smacks of "Im14AndThisIsDeep" bullshit. If you can't handle that at 19, there's not a lot of hope for you. My guess is she was terminally online long before that, and this was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Aside, the physical development of the brain isn't even what matters. Intelligence (evolutionarily speaking) has the purpose to have specimen change and adapt in runtime (during their lives) rather than be forced to have behavioral changes incurred through multiple generations of evolutionary processes. Normally it's about learning "this type of berries are toxic" rather than whatever humans are able to do.
> My guess is she was terminally online long before that, and this was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Exactly. She was growing up most of her life with the internet and social media, which in itself causes psychological damage. That shit is historically unprecedented. It's rather a matter of forming habits, societal interactions, things perceived from the internet itself, than brain developmental issues.
And people seem to mistake the meaning of "psychological" a bit. Certain scenarios are likely to lead to the same psychological outcomes, just as physical effects - you get cut in the heart, your heart ceases to function, you die. There are deviations, people can survive cuts to their heart and overcome psychological influences, but those are outliers.