Ask HN: How to deal with burnout clashing with Covid downturn and stress?

Re:Ask HN: How to deal with burnout clashing with Covid down... by pietroglyph on Thursday March 19, 2020 @12:48PM (#22629243)

> There is always another crisis around the corner where you can apply lessons learnt. The world is getting a whole lot more complicated compared to what our small brains can handle, thanks to hyperconnectivity and info exploding, so expect a whole lot more weird ass black swan events ahead.

I’m curious, do you mean that there will be more black swan events due to hyperconnectivity and they’ll be weird, or that there’ll be the same number of black swan events but they’ll be weirder due to hyperconnectivity?

I understand the reasoning behind the latter, but if it’s the former I would be interested to hear why hyperconnectivity results in more black swan events.

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Re:Ask HN: How to deal with burnout clashing with Covid down... by op03 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @01:23PM (#22629612)

I see the current hyperconnectivity state as similar to what happens in human babies brains. They are much more hyperconnected than the adult brain.

To the Baby everything is a black swan event. The more connected we get we revert to that state where info is flooding in (similar to the brain on lsd etc). The ability to handle that load/decide what to focus on/what to filter out hasn't yet developed (and requires a culling of connections as we learn). Much like the baby bumbles about precariously in that state, similar story is playing out with our networked hive mind.

Everything is mesmerizing or frightening until we learn to cull the connections and reduce the hyperconnectivity

Based on Allison Gopniks work - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-it-like-t...

https://www.edge.org/conversation/alison_gopnik-a-separate-k...

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