As in “The hours are good, but the minutes are lousy” - Vogon guard in HHG “The days go slowly, the years go quickly” — parents about kids, seriously ill people about their conditions
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Personal example: the last 5 years for me have been a case of: weeks and months go slowly, years go really quickly. 2015 feels like last year, but last month feels like 6 months ago.
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As best as I can tell, longer time scales involve narrative memories in more abstract forms (eg: daily memory = what did I eat for lunch, year-scale memory = what happened in industry/politics etc), hence the frequency band based natural sorting.
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Given the separation into temporal “shearing layers”, the felt speed of time passing is a function of the meaningful agency and surprisal rate in event stream at that abstraction level. Still working out exact rough functional form. It’s non-trivial.
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Best way to experience this is to take a plane flight with a crying child, one hour becomes and eternity
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