Always funny to see the kind of prestige the Surgeon General has in the US, and the weight that statements like this carry (like the one on smoking, too). Here in NL I can't think of anyone in a similar position. (I'm not knocking it at all, to be clear)
Surgeon General says loneliness is driving US into anxiety and pessimism
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#12"If I told you, 'I went into my backyard, I made this pill. It's amazing. It's free. If you take it, it'll actually improve your health, make you feel better, improve your performance at work, improve your grades, boost your immunity,' you'd be like, 'Sign me up. I'll take that tomorrow.'" It turns out that's what social connection is. Just a little connection can go a long way in keeping us healthy.
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Some of them? Or all of them? Are you boring?
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#13"If I told you, 'I went into my backyard, I made this pill. It's amazing. It's free. If you take it, it'll actually improve your health, make you feel better, improve your performance at work, improve your grades, boost your immunity,' you'd be like, 'Sign me up. I'll take that tomorrow.'" It turns out that's what social connection is. Just a little connection can go a long way in keeping us healthy.
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You just have to find the right people - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYCz06bS380
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Hear me out: shorter work week (4 day week), work life balance, and living where there is more density and public transit to reduce social friction. Humans are social creatures, they must have time and opportunity to be social. We've done the line go up thing, and it isn't working out great. Maybe we could try something else?
Theoretically yes. Practically almost all people got highly manipulated into having no hobby's or interests in their free time. They will find no use for a 4 day week not will they see any advantages.
I think many people simply cannot afford to have hobbies or interests
An astonishing number of people live paycheck to paycheck and basically any hobby costs at least some money
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#15Where do you go to meet real humans and have social interaction?
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#16Where do you go to meet real humans and have social interaction?
Hacker News.
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Hear me out: shorter work week (4 day week), work life balance, and living where there is more density and public transit to reduce social friction. Humans are social creatures, they must have time and opportunity to be social. We've done the line go up thing, and it isn't working out great. Maybe we could try something else?
>living where there is more density and public transit to reduce social friction.
Anecdata, most people seem to move out to less dense and more private parts of the country as they get older and accrue more agency in their lives. I imagine they get tired of people.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hear me out: shorter work week (4 day week), work life balance, and living where there is more density and public transit to reduce social friction. Humans are social creatures, they must have time and opportunity to be social. We've done the line go up thing, and it isn't working out great. Maybe we could try something else?
Theoretically yes. Practically almost all people got highly manipulated into having no hobby's or interests in their free time. They will find no use for a 4 day week not will they see any advantages.
It’d be nice to have at least one actual day off every week instead of a day of catching up on all the must-do personal and family work that you had to defer during the work week and then another day that’s half more of that and half fretting that the work week is about to start again and you haven’t gotten any relaxation in.
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#20Where do you go to meet real humans and have social interaction?
In my case a local makerspace to play board games. I've made a few friends that I hang out with outside the space -- sometimes I host events in my home, sometimes we go out to get dinner or whatever.