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Re:Unlimited Information Is Transforming Society by AnimalMuppet on Sunday September 06, 2020 @02:15PM (#24393391)
When I saw this, the adjacent story on HN was "Attention is your scarcest resource". That seems to me to be clearly a consequence of unlimited information.
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Re:Unlimited Information Is Transforming Society by HenryKissinger on Sunday September 06, 2020 @02:47PM (#24393643)
That headline is nonsense. I have unlimited attention.
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Re:Unlimited Information Is Transforming Society by umvi on Sunday September 06, 2020 @02:51PM (#24393680)
Yes but you can only direct attention at 1 thing at a time, and you have limited time. Therefore your attention is limited.
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