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Post by JohannesH » Wed, Dec 02, 2015, 7:53 PM UTC

gamerDude wrote: post #61

JohannesH wrote: post #42

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I posted a 9 second video of me pushing a coke can over a table making a sound that's similar to Chewbacca ( https://youtu.be/myhYNsRXYgs ) a few days ago. So far it's been seen 750.000 times on youtube and about 3.000.000 times on facebook. This is about 416 days worth of people watching this video (wasting time). However, I think it is the wrong perspective to take. People do all sorts of "seemingly" non-productive…

Haha, to bring in another psychology principle, after watching that I watched it again with my eyes closed. Definitely does not sound like Chewbacca unless you have the visual of Chewbacca in your mind making it easy for my mind to connect the memory of Chewbacca to aluminium dragging on a surface.

Post by jacquesm » Wed, Dec 02, 2015, 9:50 PM UTC

codeshaman wrote: post #72

jacquesm wrote: post #40

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> 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?

Actually :).. I wanted to scare off my cat who climbs onto my chair in the morning and bugs me from behind. So I searched for the thing on youtube and put the volume to the max... At first my cat was a bit worried, but by now he got used to the crazy machine I have here and he just rubbed his head off my iMac.. I on the other hand... continued watching the video and then I clicked another one and possibly another one…

Post by joshschreuder » Wed, Dec 02, 2015, 10:02 PM UTC

Shengbo wrote: post #22

noondip wrote: post #9

If you enjoyed these, also be sure to check out Jon Rafman's http://9-eyes.com/

I have no idea what's going on in most of these photos, but I love it. I wish they had coordinates though.

Post by xemoka » Wed, Dec 02, 2015, 11:46 PM UTC

livingparadox wrote: post #58

noondip wrote: post #9

If you enjoyed these, also be sure to check out Jon Rafman's http://9-eyes.com/

Some of those are such beautiful pictures. All from a truck just taking pictures of everything. If an infinite amount of monkeys can write Shakespeare, then I suppose its inevitable that millions of random pictures could produce these.

Post by bobm_kite9 » Thu, Dec 03, 2015, 8:50 AM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #23

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I know exactly what you mean. I am trying to figure out why I do this too. I guess at some level, I expect a dopameine reward for watching a video. And, I guess this also motivates the other 8 million people. Even after I've watched something like this, I'm not entirely sure I've wasted my time. But, I think this does point to some kind of human failing, or inherent human bias, a bit like a propensity for gambling.

I'd argue that a propensity for gambling is essentially a propensity for risk taking, something that makes us human and commonly leads us to success (and major failures too, but this is the human condition). Many of my own successes have come via merely dicking around or dabbling in things that interested me, so I'm going to chalk it up as a win.