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Re: Google sheep view

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Post by nowprovision » Wed, Dec 02, 2015, 12:00 PM UTC

Holy shit, you know hipsters with their activism desires will eat you alive... It's racist, conferences will be cancelled, 24hr keyboard warrior marathons will be held, Google will be noted as evil... Think, won't someone please think

Re: Google sheep view

#32

Post by pizza234 » Wed, Dec 02, 2015, 12:08 PM UTC

(Cheap) entertainment is a human need, we don't need to be productive 24/7 (of course, within a certain extent).

I actually find deeply misguided to be (or trying to be) productive 24/7.

edit: more precise wording.

Re: Google sheep view

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Post by vive-la-liberte » Wed, Dec 02, 2015, 12:14 PM UTC

Same here. Would like to know where http://36.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maf5ynOadW1qzun8oo1_1280.j... was taken.

Re: Google sheep view

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Post by jhoechtl » Wed, Dec 02, 2015, 12:15 PM UTC

The amount of brainless distraction grows at the same rate we as citizen feel depowered from fighting against those challenges which really affect us or other persuade to believe us to affect us.

Re: Google sheep view

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Post by pwm » Wed, Dec 02, 2015, 12:17 PM UTC

What would be your answer? Why did you watch it?

Re: Google sheep view

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Post by comboy » Wed, Dec 02, 2015, 12:26 PM UTC

It's really hard to define what's good/productive and what is not (apart from choosing optimization function, there's so many unknowns, like e.g. speeding up technological progress could be leading to our quicker extinction).

So if I look at this frustrated guy rewriting app from one JS framework to another, and some other one being happy looking at some pictures of sheep, I'm really not able to tell which one is spending his time "better".

Of course there's also this thing that for one person exploring depths of some computer game may be very exciting and worth spending time, while somebody else may not get his dopamine unless he creates something new. Everything seems to suggest that the there are more consumers than creators out there

But what I actually wanted to point out, is that when you look at human history, it seems to me, that even when spending a lot of time watching cats, average Joe is able and is doing a lot more of meaningful stuff today than he was able in the past. Again, meaningful is hard to define, but I mean there's more opportunity to do something that no one has ever done before. More niches and small global communities. Less time spent on dull repetitive tasks (yes, I think it does still hold true if you include China).

Re: Google sheep view

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Post by sesm » Wed, Dec 02, 2015, 12:37 PM UTC

It's Japanese Macaque, so should be either Japan or a zoo.

Re: Google sheep view

#38

Post by rimantas » Wed, Dec 02, 2015, 12:46 PM UTC

http://www.amazon.com/Slack-Getting-Burnout-Busywork-Efficie...

Re: Google sheep view

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Post by Arnt » Wed, Dec 02, 2015, 1:14 PM UTC

There a long slope from TV soaps to art. A lot of those otherwise pointless web pages live somewhere on that slope.

I like it, personally. Bad art, pretend art, halfbrained art, it's all someone's creativity and to me, that glass is half full. Collecting sheep pictures is perhaps a poor display of creativity, but it is an act of creation, and thereby vastly better than sitting in front of the teevee watching game of thrones.

http://49.media.tumblr.com/c6e37502d4da22a4761c9f3263a43c32/...

http://itswillstuff.tumblr.com/post/126348805922/ffffffound-...

Re: Google sheep view

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Post by jacquesm » Wed, Dec 02, 2015, 1:27 PM UTC

> Out of all the activities and experiences that our modern world offers, 8 million viewers still chose to watch two cats fighting ... Why ?

There is at least one of those 8 million viewers that you can ask directly: yourself.

I didn't watch that video and I won't be, so I'm asking you: Why?