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The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity

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Post by polm23 »

kanzure wrote: post #143
knodi123 wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If it were true... how would we know? If it were true, how would they know?!? It's like if my nephew came to my house and saw Star Wars, and then on the drive home with his mom, he told her the story and she (who never saw the movie) said "He recited the entire movie after one hearing!" No, what he did was remember most of the plot outline (imperfectly), and describe several scenes (imperfectly), and reproduce the…

You could stripe the memory across multiple different people who are responsible for smaller fragments. Each person can be responsible for some number of shared fragments. See your issued handbook, subsection "Surviving information storage in ancient times". (They could also just write it down, they had that.)

I take it you're joking, but some vedas have features that work like error correcting codes that help them survive oral transmission unchanged.

http://www.hindupedia.com/en/Mathematics_of_the_Vedas#Error_...

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Post by infectoid »

mysterypie wrote: post #180

Has anyone here tried asking everyone to not look at or fiddle with their phones at a meeting they've called or a social event they've organized? How did it work out? What about going the extra step of collecting the phones to be returned when the meeting or event is over? Is there any way to do either of these without coming off as a jerk?

Ever tried the Phone Stacking game with friends?

In short: You all stack your phones on each other after ordering food. First person to crack pays the bill.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/you-have...

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Post by lsalvatore »

_d8fd wrote: post #153

I predict someone will invent a smart utensil. It will be a smartphone-like device that has a curated app store which only includes utilitarian apps. It'll contain all of the apps people think "I'd love to ditch my smart phone, but I'd really miss ". Apps I really want AND never waste time on: - ride sharing (Lyft, Uber) - calendar - calculator - mobile banking - movie times & reviews - booking a place to stay (Counc…

You are for certain correct, there is a strong need for such a device, the only reason it doesn't exist I'm sure is because there is no way to advertise on it. This is why I funded the Pebble and Pebble Core. I anticipated the Pebble to be the next big utilitarian notification device, and the Core (headless Smartphone) to potentially inspire a new type of minimal, even colorless smartphone that you describe. Unfortunately, they ran out of money. I still use my Pebble and it is a fantastic replacement to all my notifications on my smartphone, without any of the unnecessary HD graphics.

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Post by shakil »

knodi123 wrote: post #121
jorgenev wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Bards pre-literate-times in Greece purportedly could recite Homer's Odyssey themselves after one hearing Is this a true fact, or just a story people keep repeating because it sounds interesting? If it were true... how would we know? Presumably you would cite sources from Ancient Greece where people reported that they knew bards who could memorize a whole story with one listen, but like, there are sources from Ancie…

> If it were true... how would we know? If it were true, how would they know?!? It's like if my nephew came to my house and saw Star Wars, and then on the drive home with his mom, he told her the story and she (who never saw the movie) said "He recited the entire movie after one hearing!" No, what he did was remember most of the plot outline (imperfectly), and describe several scenes (imperfectly), and reproduce the…

"In the ancient times, when writing was scarcely used, memory and oral transmission was exercised and strengthened to a degree now almost unknown" [1]

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=8fYNAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22The+ora...

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Post by amorphid »

stormbeard wrote: post #154
_d8fd wrote: post #153

I predict someone will invent a smart utensil. It will be a smartphone-like device that has a curated app store which only includes utilitarian apps. It'll contain all of the apps people think "I'd love to ditch my smart phone, but I'd really miss ". Apps I really want AND never waste time on: - ride sharing (Lyft, Uber) - calendar - calculator - mobile banking - movie times & reviews - booking a place to stay (Counc…

The types of people that would want this can already do it with their smart phones. What's gained by crippling a device to only support certain classes of apps?

Someone cripples the device for me in a user friendly manner that doesn't require me to think about which apps I should avoid whenever I visit the app store.

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Post by tomfitz »

quickben wrote: post #86

This worked for me: DND on for priority only, forever. Star my wife. Then I can check my phone at my leisure time for everything else.

I do this, which helps a lot. I still find myself mindlessly browsing during "downtime", however.

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Post by subdane »

cheapsteak wrote: post #171
Iv wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was in high school when I first read this opinion (I did not remember it was Socrates though). Also, I learned that Gaul, pre-roman France (where I lived), had a society where the priests/judges, the druids, were forbidden to write down their knowledge. It fascinated me. The idea that books, that were more or less revered depositories of knowledge, could have been seen as anti-intellectual at one time. It pushed me…

Recommendations on intro texts for poetry?

Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry

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Post by jutanium »

I'm an observant Jew, so I keep Shabbat every Saturday. Among our creative restrictions is the prohibition of using electronic devices. I've always had this feeling of mindfulness and focus on Shabbat that ends when I'm free to pick up my phone. Against my will, pretty much, I'm drawn to it, and like the authors say, I check it randomly at inopportune times.

These authors expressed scientifically what I've been feeling for years.

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Post by gukov »

holografix wrote: post #186

How does one manage a strong appetite to learn new things and the compulsion to look at their smartphone all the time? I recently started getting into photography and I'm finding it very hard not to look at different lenses and Lightroom tips etc etc on my phone. Combine that with a desire to learn about new tech and program and I end up spending a lot of time looking at it.

You're not actually learning but feeding your novelty-seeking brain. The best way to learn is to actually take photos, not research lenses.

Being in motion vs action: http://jamesclear.com/taking-action

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