As for technology implications: the Motorola 68000 CPU runs at 8MHz and was good enough for the Amiga 500.
Sorted. /s
Speed isn’t everything, and slowness may in fact be more beneficial (2017)
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Re: Speed isn’t everything, and slowness may in fact be more beneficial (2017)
#52"The fastest way to move a cow is slow." - An old cowboy truism, as related in the current issue of the Navajo Times.
"Take your time i'm in a hurry" - The Emperor of China to the guy who helped him dress
Re: Speed isn’t everything, and slowness may in fact be more beneficial (2017)
#53There is a mantra the navy seals use in training: go slow, slow is smooth, smooth is fast You are supposed to repeat it in stressful situations to hell you come down and avoid making costly mistakes There is also a saying is Spanish: vísteme despacio que tengo prisa (dress me slowly because I’m in a hurry) Which essentially advises to slow down when in a hurry
Same in practicing a musical instrument. Only after you can play it perfectly very slow, you increase the tempo.
Re: Speed isn’t everything, and slowness may in fact be more beneficial (2017)
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are joking, but you are right: From Why Are Sloths So Slow? ( https://slothconservation.org/sloths-move-slow/ ): > The answer is surprisingly simple: Being slow is an incredibly successful strategy for survival. In fact, being slow has helped sloths to survive on this planet for almost 64 million years.
I have the opposite conclusion. Many things have existed for millions of years, the vast majority of which are not slow. Therefore, being slow is a pretty terrible survival strategy. And, in practice, you see evidence of this: faster animals routinely kill slower ones.
The oldest living organisms contradict your conclusion. Eg greenland sharks, turtles and sponges.
Re: Speed isn’t everything, and slowness may in fact be more beneficial (2017)
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
And yet it means very little and is a horrible proxy for what we consider “intelligence”.
It's an incredibly good predictor of life outcomes.
"Both grades and achievement tests are substantially better predictors of important life outcomes than IQ." - https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1601135113
"Table 2 shows the extent to which IQ, standardized achievement tests, and grades explain the variance of outcomes at age 35 in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 (NLSY79) data. ... Achievement tests and grades are more predictive than IQ." - https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w18121/w181...
Re: Speed isn’t everything, and slowness may in fact be more beneficial (2017)
#56Interesting mix of pointers in this article. What I was looking for, but could not find in the article, is some more information about time perception [1]. It amazes me to no end that time seems to be passing faster and faster now that I grow older. In my youth, 10 minutes used to take ages, but now a month passes in a blink. If any of you startup guys can find a way to slow this down, I'll buy a subscription. [1] ht…
Isn't it just the fact that every moment is somehow compared to our experience of the sum total of all our moments. As you get older, a day becomes a smaller and smaller percentage of time out of your total lived days.
This is a theory that makes some sense, but I don't understand how it would work in my mind.
If I watch a minute pass by, I am certain that it goes faster than in my youth, but the scaling does not seem to be a linear relationship.
Say at the age of 10, I experience a minute to take 60 es (experienced seconds for a 10 year old kid). At the age of 40, it probably takes ~30 es, but certainly not 15. If we rule out sleep and boring parts of the day, then the numbers may come close.
But how would this work internally? How come all my experiences somehow add up and are projected onto my time perception gauge? Why is this not happening with, say, vision, hearing, temperature, hunger, etc?
Re: Speed isn’t everything, and slowness may in fact be more beneficial (2017)
#57Interesting mix of pointers in this article. What I was looking for, but could not find in the article, is some more information about time perception [1]. It amazes me to no end that time seems to be passing faster and faster now that I grow older. In my youth, 10 minutes used to take ages, but now a month passes in a blink. If any of you startup guys can find a way to slow this down, I'll buy a subscription. [1] ht…
A lot of the reason that time seems to pass more quickly as we age is that we have fewer and fewer novel experiences; when each day resembles the one before it, whole months can disappear in lived monotony. I like to think of memory as using a sort of compression algorithm. Repeated data gets compressed away; novel data takes up space. So you can slow down your time perception by making your life less compressible. D…
>A lot of the reason that time seems to pass more quickly as we age is that we have fewer and fewer novel experiences
Experiential reference grows, reducing what "a long time" really means. At ten years old, a year is one tenth your life experience. At fifty years old, it is one fiftieth. Pretty simple.
Agreement on the novel experiences. They do seem to reset the clock.
Re: Speed isn’t everything, and slowness may in fact be more beneficial (2017)
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of the reason that time seems to pass more quickly as we age is that we have fewer and fewer novel experiences; when each day resembles the one before it, whole months can disappear in lived monotony. I like to think of memory as using a sort of compression algorithm. Repeated data gets compressed away; novel data takes up space. So you can slow down your time perception by making your life less compressible. D…
>A lot of the reason that time seems to pass more quickly as we age is that we have fewer and fewer novel experiences Experiential reference grows, reducing what "a long time" really means. At ten years old, a year is one tenth your life experience. At fifty years old, it is one fiftieth. Pretty simple. Agreement on the novel experiences. They do seem to reset the clock.
Pretty simple, but that would mean that an experienced minute would go 50 times as fast, and that is not the case.
Also (as I tried to get at in a sibling comment), I don't see how this would work internally. Why would time perception be relative to all experience? What is the use of that, and how would it be accomplished? Why don't we have this with other sensory input, such as vision or hearing?
Re: Speed isn’t everything, and slowness may in fact be more beneficial (2017)
#59Re: Speed isn’t everything, and slowness may in fact be more beneficial (2017)
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's an incredibly good predictor of life outcomes.
"Both grades and achievement tests are substantially better predictors of important life outcomes than IQ." - https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1601135113 "Table 2 shows the extent to which IQ, standardized achievement tests, and grades explain the variance of outcomes at age 35 in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 (NLSY79) data. ... Achievement tests and grades are more predictive than IQ." -…
Even then Borghans concedes that "Grades, scores on achievement tests, and IQ are strongly positively correlated", just not perfectly so.
But also compare the meta study of Strenze (2007):
http://web.archive.org/web/20200616015146/https://esferaarmi...
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> Meta-analysis demonstrated that parental SES and academic performance are indeed positively related to career success but the predictive power of these variables is not stronger than that of intelligence (see Table 1). In fact, intelligence exhibited several correlations with the measures of success that were larger than the respective correlations for other predictors suggesting that intelligence is, after all, a better predictor of success.