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The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity
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How do you deal with 2FA?
I have a little widget similar to this hooked on my keychain for AWS: https://safenet.gemalto.com/multi-factor-authentication/auth...
And for other services? I need 2FA for couple dozen different logins. And not all of them support such hardware devices. Mobile phone is needed.
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#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you deal with 2FA?
Not OP, but I suppose one could set up SMS based 2FA on a cell phone that is not a smart phone for most major services out there.
I see. Well, the way I understood it he got rid of mobile phone altogether. So no smartphone, no dumb phone (like old Nokia). That's why I wondered how do you deal with 2FA.
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They didn't have nukes or climate change back then. Human nature + escalating technology is the scary formula we are exploring today.
The plague killed way more people than nukes ever did, and there was no way to stop it until people understood what spread it. Of course technology has bright sides as well. Without medicine and many other discoveries we would not be where we are today.
Yesterday's risks were exogenous. Few were existential.
Today's are engogenous. Several are existential.
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#295This isn't profound because a phone is made to distract you, or from a business view, get your attention
That's not really a good model of phones.
Our phones are so powerfully captivating because of the high-speed Internet connection it hides. New information at the tips of your fingers, just a swipe and even more things! Facebook, Instagram, messaging apps, HN, Reddit, news, and so on.
Sure, there are addictive offline things (games mostly), but that's not the things people usually complain about.
Phones are made to be efficient magic boxes of interesting things. It can load anyone's poison in just a few blinks.
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#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you deal with 2FA?
Google Authenticator works fine with an offline device, and SMS-based 2FA is insecure.
Right, but you still need a device. So you can just switch your smartphone into airplane mode and only turn the airplane mode when you want to make a phone call / use wifi.
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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…
This really speaks to me. I have trouble remembering things, even important things that I know I will want to remember in the future. I forget or it gets fuzzy. Sometimes I can remember better once my memory is jogged, but I can't recall it on demand. That means that things that I should be able to associate pretty easily are never put together unless it's made painfully obvious and explicit. It's a been a point of f…
You are right. Consolidating and ruminating are essential. Feeling bored is important. Having the patience to tolerate it is a very important skill.
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You seem to be defending against a claim the study does not make. They're not saying "smartphones make us stupid because Google's in your pocket!" Rather, the study is saying that by having your phone on the desk or even in your pocket, you will exhibit decreased mental capacity because your brain is using some cognitive resources to monitor for notifications etc. This may be over-simplified but appears to be backed…
As a manager in IT I have to have my phone on 24x7 for escalations and I hate it. On the occurrences that I take a real vacation and can turn my phone off, something in my head flips and I can truly forget about it. When it is on, there is something subconscious that will not quite let go and I can feel it. I feel I would benefit greatly from being able to truly turn my phone off one day a week.
In all seriousness, find some way out of this.
The stress may well be cumulative, and it's insidious.
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Wouldn't that mean, then, that most all "doom and gloom" we get today is as irrelevant as those of old?
They didn't have nukes or climate change back then. Human nature + escalating technology is the scary formula we are exploring today.
They had climate change, and it was one of the main reasons "barbarians" migrated, and Rome had fallen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Ancient_Rome#Enviro...