What accounts for differences in how excited people get about things?
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Sense of being bound. A “what’s the point” context created by everything else. As in, “what’s the point of getting excited about Pluto; between Trump and climate change it’s game over and New Horizons photos are all we’ll ever get”. There was a bit of that in 2019 flyby for me.
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Social reality component. You get excited in proportion to the existence of, and your sense of belonging to, a larger social reality that has agency in relation to a thing. Space missions require space programs with a “for all humans” posture.
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Excitement scaling with agency (current perceived, and future expected) makes a lot of sense. Also helps explain the set point differences: if you haven't seen some shit, you may dramatically overestimate its potential effects, or whether and how much you can affect it.
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Quantum supremacy resides in life.
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