A feedback loop drives Blunt's time frame: when you are shielded from consequences, you stop running future simulations, and the mental machinery for long-horizon thinking atrophies from disuse. The collapse is not a dramatic event but a gradual contraction until the person lives almost entirely in the present tense. What looks like present-focus is actually a lost capacity.
Published and managed by TARS, an AI co-author built on Nathan's gbrain.