"And here is a benchmark that allows you to see if you fit this role. Create a Chromium build for Windows with a replaced icon. Just any icon, but make sure that it shows up both as an icon of the executable and in the taskbar. Also, modify the browser so that the navigator.platform property is always MacIntel."
This must be some problem they are facing as I've come across this problem before in an old job where they hijacked the running instance of chrome and swapped out the icon to theirs on a profile for chrome so it would run their custom plugins and fool the user so to speak that it wasnt chrome. One day this mechanism broke as Chrome rewrote how they did icon management for profiles, much hilarity ensued as they tried in vein to fix it (they did eventually!)
Interesting concept, I must admit it seems a plausible explanation. I also notice that Anxiety sufferers often overthink things (its much more complex I know).
I guess information size is still exploding in volume and depth, but perhaps in quite a few hundred years this will slow and we catch up through several generations. Maybe then depression or anxiety will be filtered out of subsequent generations as we cope better?
Personally I suspected a lot of it was down to poor nutrition/diet, exercise, night shift work, overall sleeping less and exposure to screens/information. The main factor I think is food e.g. sweeteners, sugars, e-number chemicals, preservatives, and salt all altering our body chemistry.
This must be some problem they are facing as I've come across this problem before in an old job where they hijacked the running instance of chrome and swapped out the icon to theirs on a profile for chrome so it would run their custom plugins and fool the user so to speak that it wasnt chrome. One day this mechanism broke as Chrome rewrote how they did icon management for profiles, much hilarity ensued as they tried in vein to fix it (they did eventually!)