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Re: delta time

#4
I like the use of the Weber-Fechner law, that's a lens I use to think of age as well :) The idea is that experienced time is proportional to log time, i.e. it's why time seems to move faster as we age. You could even measure your age in powers of two, like we do octaves.

Re: delta time

#7

Love it! Bug report, if you're the author: I can't delete periods. Feature request: I wanna be able to move periods from one layer to another.

What platform / browser? Note that if you opened through a shared link you may be in view only mode. If that's the case I'll try making it more obvious

Re: delta time

#8

Love it! Bug report, if you're the author: I can't delete periods. Feature request: I wanna be able to move periods from one layer to another.

What platform / browser? Note that if you opened through a shared link you may be in view only mode. If that's the case I'll try making it more obvious

nevermind, got a repro. thanks

Re: delta time

#9

I like the use of the Weber-Fechner law, that's a lens I use to think of age as well :) The idea is that experienced time is proportional to log time, i.e. it's why time seems to move faster as we age. You could even measure your age in powers of two, like we do octaves.

Are you saying that a better way to measure perceived time is something like "1 year, 2 more years, 4 more years, 8 more years," starting from birth, and maybe call each of those increments a "log year"? I like it.

I guess the "natural" base to use to get the "right" number of increments is a pointless exercise, since it ultimately bottoms out in the question of "why is a regular year as long as it is?", but if we assume a base of 2, I'm currently in my 6th log year, and hope to die comfortably into my 7th. Actuarial odds are >80% in my favor.

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