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They Stole Your Attention

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Re: They Stole Your Attention

#11
post #7

why should I employ my time reading something the "author" didn't bother writing? my attention has been stolen, sure, but if wrestle it back I'll give it to anything else

I mean I spent about an hour doing research for this and building the charts I thought it was super insightful, I based my entries on stuff Im thinking about. I mean is it crap?

Re: They Stole Your Attention

#12
post #8

People don't have hobbies anymore. I can probably count on 1 hand the number of people I talk to that actually have a real hobby, something they do in their spare time. Everyone’s just scrolling these days.

Or the hobby folks are all too busy with their hobbies to chat these days.

It's too bad, though. Regardless of what hobby you're in, it's a golden age to have it.

Re: They Stole Your Attention

#15
The data seemed like it could be interesting but I found it tough to engage with the “stylish” AI prose and UI flourishes.

Is there a human-written long-form article to go with this?

Re: They Stole Your Attention

#16
post #8

People don't have hobbies anymore. I can probably count on 1 hand the number of people I talk to that actually have a real hobby, something they do in their spare time. Everyone’s just scrolling these days.

Or the hobby folks are all too busy with their hobbies to chat these days. It's too bad, though. Regardless of what hobby you're in, it's a golden age to have it.

surely coding projects is a hobby surely eveyron HN is finishing all their "dream" projects that were vastly impossible to finish before AI? otherwise thats just me

Re: They Stole Your Attention

#18
post #8

People don't have hobbies anymore. I can probably count on 1 hand the number of people I talk to that actually have a real hobby, something they do in their spare time. Everyone’s just scrolling these days.

That's not my experience at all. My friends have plenty of hobbies and so do I.

Re: They Stole Your Attention

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post #11
post #7

why should I employ my time reading something the "author" didn't bother writing? my attention has been stolen, sure, but if wrestle it back I'll give it to anything else

I mean I spent about an hour doing research for this and building the charts I thought it was super insightful, I based my entries on stuff Im thinking about. I mean is it crap?

I think it would have been much more insightful if you just shared your thoughts directly. I'm not interested in reading Claude output.

A lot of people spend more than an hour writing a post and it usually results in a better experience for everyone.

Re: They Stole Your Attention

#20
Upvoted. IMHO quite shocking numbers if you think what it does with society as a whole. There will be a variation in statistical spread in different countries/cultures, I would love to see them. Where do you have the base data from?

What is more shocking what this does to people that have never been bored or cut off from media. The pure social media generation so to say.

I liked the idea attention measurement clock on the bottom of the page.

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