[HN Gopher] Perceived Age
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Perceived Age
Author : sdan
Score : 58 points
Date : 2024-08-09 17:46 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| andrewla wrote:
| I know this is slightly off-topic, but the study referenced for
| the first graph [1] seems absurdly badly designed. Subjects were
| divided into arbitrary age groups, but all subjects were given
| the same task, so why divide at all? Why not give a scatter plot
| of age vs. perceived seconds? It's so unnecessary -- it's
| basically just to get an ANOVA -- that it makes me think it is
| p-hacking to try to find significance rather than actually
| measuring anything of interest.
|
| [1]
| https://www.scielo.br/j/anp/a/d6SvJK5tM6kCFPTmpVj5pSz/?forma...
| Fraterkes wrote:
| This is a nice piece. But as a random dutch guy, going to the
| authors about page, seeing that this 22 year old kid has started
| multiple companies, ai stuff with 500k users, and is writing
| about all these Large Life Lessons, (and seeing that he grew up
| in cupertino)... sometimes it realy feels like hackernews is a
| portal to a completely different world, one that parodies itself
| occasionally. (Im pretty jealous too of course, wish i had been a
| bit more productive when i was younger, and i especially wish i
| had written more)
| johnmaguire wrote:
| Why do you wish you had written more? To have a window into
| your past self?
| warkdarrior wrote:
| You cannot be an influencer unless you write, create videos
| or podcasts.
| Fraterkes wrote:
| Because I feel like Ive changed a lot I suppose, and I feel
| that even if I had written slightly pretentious blogposts
| that Id roll my eyes at now, it would be nice to slightly
| reexperience what i was like back then. I sometimes think the
| only way you ever get to see yourself as other people see you
| is to look at the way you were a long while ago.
| JohnFen wrote:
| > sometimes it realy feels like hackernews is a portal to a
| completely different world
|
| HN is very silicon-valley centered, and SV itself is a fairly
| isolated and unique world.
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| Keep in mind that this is likely survivorship bias; for every
| 22 year old that did all that, there's millions that didn't.
| This kid is the 0.001% or less, and it's unreasonable for
| anyone to feel like they missed out. I get it though, it's
| guilt or the pang of missed opportunity, "if only I worked
| harder", "if only I wasn't so lazy at the time", but
| honestly... it's fine. Be glad where you are. Because for every
| one 22 year old that achieved all that, there's millions that
| never got that old, millions that ended up in poverty, millions
| that ended up worse off than you, etc.
| thechao wrote:
| Here's something I hadn't thought of: there's been 10-12
| thousand generations of people, stretching back ~250000
| years. And, yet, you could (in theory) meet ~7% of all humans
| who've ever been alive _right now_.
| moffkalast wrote:
| Comparing yourself to extreme outliers that had all the
| ability, persistence, support and an amount of luck that out
| dwarfs all of that is a recipe for some real misery.
|
| As long as you're alive you're able to go out and do what you
| can and work towards what you want. Croc made McDonalds into a
| franchise practically as he was about to retire after a life of
| nothing notable at all. And well, peaking too early comes with
| its own psychological torture, how do you live knowing that
| you'll never do anything as impressive as you did when you were
| like 16?
| holoduke wrote:
| Maybe in 10 years from now, noone would die anymore. Plenty of
| time to get back to where you wanted to be :)
| smokel wrote:
| You might be impressed by his achievements, but you may also
| feel some comfort in knowing that this random poster finds
| those inflated statistics a bit off-putting.
|
| I prefer a modest introduction followed by a pleasant surprise,
| but that's probably not the best way to become a billionaire.
| jackbravo wrote:
| The `Make the world sparkle again` episode of the podcast Hidden
| Brain podcast (https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/making-the-world-
| sparkle-aga...) talks about the same topic. They interview Tail
| Sharot a neuroscientist and author of the ` Look Again: The Power
| of Noticing What Was Always There` book.
|
| Similar advice, learn new things, take smaller (3 dayish) but
| more frequent vacation instead of longer ones, change your
| environment.
| PaulHoule wrote:
| Oddly around 49 I became highly adaptable and became quite
| willing to put myself in another's hands, radically change the
| way I do anything at all, etc. It was associated with something
| that I realized, later, was a mental health crisis.
|
| After things came to a head, I retreated. One day I read
| something I'd read many times and not really understood
| (something I've experienced often when doing research to help
| friends who were troubled by never got a proper psychodiagnosis)
| and I got it and finally understood how I was different from
| other people and why things went the way they have for me.
|
| Funny though the super flexibility came back (without the
| delusions) and today I find reinvention easier than I ever did.
| Now I'm the kind of guy who has an argument with his RSS reader
| over why soccer sucks compared to the NFL and then I start
| thinking about feature selection and an ontology of sports
| articles and then next thing I know I am one of those people who
| gets up at 9AM on a Saturday to watch the Premier league, goes to
| MLS games, roots for the Red Bulls, etc.
| apitman wrote:
| My brother told me a theory many years ago that time perception
| is based on the number of memories we have and how they're
| stored.
|
| Imagine your brain being like a filing cabinet, which is empty to
| start with. Memories are stored as folders with as much space
| between them as possible. Time perception is created by the
| distance between memories. So the more memories you have, the
| faster time seems to have passed and be passing.
|
| No research or anything to back it up, just fun for me to think
| about.
| holoduke wrote:
| I always thought the less memories you have the faster time has
| passed. The older you get the less new events are stored in
| your memory and therfor you have large gaps of nothing. A year
| has passed without much. As a teenager you have new experiences
| every day and therefor time feels slower.
| imjonse wrote:
| My totally unscientific model is that memories are run length
| encoded, so the monotonous periods' length is compressed,
| whereas if they are more diverse, the more info you have, so it
| needs an expanded storage which is proportional to the
| perceived time elapsed.
| activatedgeek wrote:
| This effect is very interesting.
|
| Veritasium covered this effect in a video [1] for the interested.
|
| [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIx2N-viNwY (2016)
| mtsolitary wrote:
| The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann is basically a fantastic
| account of this phenomenon.
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