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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by Zetice on Monday July 24, 2023 @07:52PM (#36855851)
So? That means nothing as to the quality or even topic of their blog content.

Unless blogs started receiving peer review while I wasn't paying attention, there's likely a reason any given content lives there and not in an academic paper.

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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by cubefox on Monday July 24, 2023 @09:11PM (#36856511)
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36852187
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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by Zetice on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @09:15AM (#36861723)
Wrong submission about attention.
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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by axiomaticdoubts on Monday July 24, 2023 @11:46PM (#36857614)
Well, yeah, blogs are not academic journals. And if a blog post disagrees with academic consensus, the academic consensus will be right the vast majority of the time. But this applies to all blogs on the internet, not only those on LessWrong.
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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by Zetice on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:03AM (#36862394)
The issue is that LW, more than most, is seemingly unaware of this fact.
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