noretus
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- Comment on We say things like "time is money" but really the most valuable thing you have (and which everyone covets) is your attention. 7 hours ago:
And what are neurotransmitters?
- Comment on We say things like "time is money" but really the most valuable thing you have (and which everyone covets) is your attention. 8 hours ago:
Quite frankly it’s somewhat disturbing that you take a fairly neutral description of an unspecified event as “writing an entire paragraph about how work meetings suck”. You are overlaying a hell of a thought framework of your own onto the text I wrote and then telling me I’m the one with a problem.
- Comment on We say things like "time is money" but really the most valuable thing you have (and which everyone covets) is your attention. 8 hours ago:
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- Comment on We say things like "time is money" but really the most valuable thing you have (and which everyone covets) is your attention. 8 hours ago:
Attention isn’t always good, being followed around by a person who can’t pick up social cues who wants to give you all of their attention doesn’t feel good
Actually this is kinda what I was thinking when I wrote the last bit. I was specifically thinking about ASMR actually and how ASMRtists are at risk for unhealthy attention and attachments from people who look at them for hours and hours. However it’s a bit besides my point. Your attention remains valuable to you (one hopes) but obviously unwanted attention is… well, unwanted. There’s a big tangent of course on if someone giving unwanted attention to someone else is really giving their attention to that person, or are they giving their attention to their personal, subjective idea about that person (I’d argue the latter, because I prefer to give attention as a concept a somewhat virtuous vibe - because I want to encourage people to value their attention).
Time matters because it’s a limited resource
So is attention. We can multitask to some degree but sooner or later the plates will start falling. But as I said, you can put a number on time but you can’t give 3.5 attentions to something. For the human mind it’s easier to grasp the idea of “giving time” because you can measure, compare and contrast it. Attention just is, and it’s extremely subjective specifically because in daily life it’s very hard to know if someone is objectively giving their full attention to something or are they just physically present while engaging with something entirely different in their mind.
- Comment on We say things like "time is money" but really the most valuable thing you have (and which everyone covets) is your attention. 9 hours ago:
I wrote very broadly (on purpose). Never defined the nature of the meeting. What your mind says about me has little to do with my life.
- Comment on We say things like "time is money" but really the most valuable thing you have (and which everyone covets) is your attention. 9 hours ago:
Eh, I see what you mean but I think in this culture and point in time, it’s useful for human well-being to see them as separate things. Like I said, conflating them is a sleight of hand. Because the reality is that you can book 1h for a meeting and then be totally mentally absent from it. People think that you’re committed in the meeting, you’re giving it your time as can be measured. You are not actually giving your time to the meeting but due to being physically present, you’re also not using your time (and attention) freely on what you really want to. So you’re doing a sleight of hand possibly on yourself and people observing you in the meeting.
- Comment on We say things like "time is money" but really the most valuable thing you have (and which everyone covets) is your attention. 9 hours ago:
No, I don’t think so. You can be physically present somewhere while your attention is in whatever is going on in your head. Though I grant you that in that case you’re not doing either very well.
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- Comment on I'm not so sure those are "foot" steps 1 day ago:
Pussyfooting on ice is understandable tho.
- Comment on I'm just here for the memes 2 weeks ago:
The struggle is real.
- Comment on Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots) 1 month ago:
No, do not give into Chromium. Letting Google dominate web rendering standards is a bigger problem.
- Comment on The Internet is Dying. We Can Still Stop It 2 months ago:
I’m all for internet “dying”. Let it become a hostile environment filled with garbage and ads on the mainstream social media level. Hopefully people will get fed up with it and focus on real life again. Leave the dark corner of weird interfaces, console commands and modifications to nerds.
- Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation 2 months ago:
I’m just surprised that it seems relatively cheap. Not to me personally, mind you, but I would expect something like this that’s actually decent quality to cost somewhere more like 100k.
