Social media has taught me how obsessed women are with men over 6 feet. I wanna go back to when I was not aware of this.
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No, it taught you how obsessed SOME women are. Just like how some men are obsessed with with women's feet. How much obsessives talk about a topic is not a good sign of how much most people think about it.
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good insight re selection bias
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On the other hand I think it's legitimately a negative effect of the internet on people's morale that they're constantly exposed to the people way out on various bellcurves of height/wealth/dick size/etc
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TV did it first. Everyone's "fake friends" are richer / more fun / sexier than their own lives, and this makes them depressed. I've seen studies that show that hours-of-TV-watched is negatively correlated w mood (tho of course which direction is causality?)
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My expectation is causality is mostly in the other direction in that, if you've got nothing else to do you can always watch TV but it's the nothing else to do that's the source of the issue.
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i suspect both
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I have this long-standing model that's sort of like one Scott Adams articulated back in the day, that people tend to be reluctant to reduce their quality of life in the moment-to-moment sense so TV can be seen as a trap by being more fun/interesting than the lame parts of hobbies
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yeah, I find it interesting that I don't enjoy 90% of the time I spend doing my hobbies it's a flow state thing, I think: I usually push myself to learn / improve, so I'm always stressing and sweating (usually literally, bc I sweat w stress) and only the rote parts are fun
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I find that interesting. For me, the learning and improving parts are hard (time consuming, and effortful to get started) but also fun. The rote parts are not as much fun.
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have you taken an OCEAN / Big Five personality test? I know that I'm very very high N (neurotic / negative emotions). I feel like I'm failing all the time - and ESPECIALLY when doing something new. If you're low N ...
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Replying to @MorlockP @drethelin
I've not. Probably wouldn't bother, it sounds boring.
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