I don't think that's true. Eventually, we'll have implants.
Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens
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Re: Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens
#252This article is about the effects of eye strain, not the overall mental health of looking at content on a screen. With that in mind, what is it about a screen (emitted light) that is worse than outdoors reflect light? One item I can think of, is that looking at something with reflected natural light, the iris contracts based on the total amount of light hitting it. Whereas a screen may be brighter than the ambient li…
i dont know whether this is accurate, but i've found lighter color schemes for coding muuuch more pleasing on my eyes than extremely dark/contrast-y ones
Me too, I can't stand "dark themes". I also prefer a well lit room while some people prefer working in a dark room in front of a bright display.
Re: Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens
#253While this article touches on eyesight, it seems like it's quite a myopic view of the issue (see what I did there? ;)
But seriously, we spend over half of our "healthy years" staring at a screen? This should be begging deep philosophical questions
- How do you want to spend your life?
- When you look back at your life, how do you want to have used your time?
- What is important to you?
Some questions I struggled with when I went on a sabbatical was "what makes me feel alive, really alive?"
Ironically, my answer for many months was, "I don't know, but it's not staring at a screen."
Many other people's answered things like "rock climbing", "sky diving", "going dancing", and I think those are pretty decent answers, but mine settled on "anything that makes me grow".
I also thoroughly spending time with other people in real human-to-human interaction. This feels like a huge slap-in-the-face wakeup call.
Re: Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens
#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
Speaking personally, most of my good friendships growing up (and even now) were with people online and they feel perfectly fulfilling and real to me. I've been really surprised to hear people (who seem to have been forced into interacting with folks online because of covid) start popping up claiming that online interactions aren't real and are somehow invalid or inferior, as your post seems to imply. I would have tho…
> they feel perfectly fulfilling and real to me That is the whole point of a simulation. Hyper-palatable food, cocaine, porn etc. they also feel good and even hyper-real in our nervous systems in the short term, but that’s not a good way to judge if they pose long term complications. Though, I’m not saying video chat is necessarily a hyperstimulus, we don’t know yet. > claiming that online interactions aren't real an…
I've been dating someone online for the last two months and I agree there is something missing, perhaps something chemical, that can't be transmitted over a screen and a speaker. But your viewpoint seems a bit too myopic. Humans are exceptional at adapting, and our brains are brilliant at filling in the blanks. I have no doubt that people can have deep and meaningful interpersonal communication without being face to face. I know I have many times, and I have certainly experienced intense emotion with people remotely, and built trust, and felt my social needs sated (if not my physical needs, specifically sex).
Maybe reconsider the idea that it is a problematic simulation, because it's really no more a simulation that how our brains translate vibrations and light waves into sounds and pictures in the first place. If video chat is an illusion, then so is face to face communication, as neither one is an unfiltered experience. The filter of standing two feet from someone is only marginally different than the filter of a video chat. The real filter, the one doing the heavy lifting in both cases, is our brains translating the raw data of the physical world into our lived experience.
Re: Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens
#255"If children get outside enough, it doesn't matter how much they study they do. They don't become myopic," said Ian Morgan, researcher at Australian National University.[0] "Researchers say kids and teens need to get sunlight during the critical years of their development while their eyeballs are still growing. "The mechanics of how sunlight protects their eyes are not clearly understood. One theory suggests that sun…
Reminder that being outdoors and sunlight have nothing to do with myopia. It's about how much light is focusing on your fovea and in peripheral vision. Being outside is just one common way that your peripheral vision isn't constantly in focus because there's not a screen filling up most of your periperal vision.
Your statement does not make clear whether you're making a positive assertion about the mechanism of myopia, or whether you're making an assertion about some other potential eye condition.
If you are making a positive assertion about the mechanism about myopia, then you are directly contradicting the article, which states the mechanism is not clear. While it may be the case that the article is misrepresenting the science, I personally find this to be unlikely.
In which case, given you are asserting an alternate hypothesis compared to the null hypothesis presented in the article, I do ask you for some more backup to your claims.
Re: Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens
#256"If children get outside enough, it doesn't matter how much they study they do. They don't become myopic," said Ian Morgan, researcher at Australian National University.[0] "Researchers say kids and teens need to get sunlight during the critical years of their development while their eyeballs are still growing. "The mechanics of how sunlight protects their eyes are not clearly understood. One theory suggests that sun…
Is there higher incidence of myopia in places with less sunlight?
Re: Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens
#257We spend 34 years of our lives staring at computer screens. The rest of the time is just wasted.
Those sound like the first lines of a movie I would watch.
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#258And programmers?
Re: Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens
#259While this article touches on eyesight, it seems like it's quite a myopic view of the issue (see what I did there? ;) But seriously, we spend over half of our "healthy years" staring at a screen? This should be begging deep philosophical questions - How do you want to spend your life? - When you look back at your life, how do you want to have used your time? - What is important to you? Some questions I struggled with…
A big component is surely from work. In which case, how does the philosophy extend to take into account the fact that people are in offices working?
Re: Average adult will spend 34 years of their life staring at screens
#260While this article touches on eyesight, it seems like it's quite a myopic view of the issue (see what I did there? ;) But seriously, we spend over half of our "healthy years" staring at a screen? This should be begging deep philosophical questions - How do you want to spend your life? - When you look back at your life, how do you want to have used your time? - What is important to you? Some questions I struggled with…
A big component is surely from work. In which case, how does the philosophy extend to take into account the fact that people are in offices working?
We'll all be healthier after Capitalism collapses.