Re:Microcentury (2020)
by wizzwizz4 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @02:55PM
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> How much focused attention one will tend to give a prolonged activity that doesn't normally involve their input, feedback, or control (on top of the fact that learning is evolutionarily not an easy thing to do) is certainly relative to the activities one would alternatively have available to them.
This is true. My thesis is that “alternatively” is relative to the context.
But we can science this! This is the kind of thing that anyone with access to people can discover the answer to; it's not even fraught with ethical hazards! You just need to be really, really, really, really boring.
This is true. My thesis is that “alternatively” is relative to the context.
But we can science this! This is the kind of thing that anyone with access to people can discover the answer to; it's not even fraught with ethical hazards! You just need to be really, really, really, really boring.