I wonder if we are actually describing the same experience in different ways. Maybe your "perception of the world changing" is my "letting your subconscious take over" (which would have the effect of the world looking/feeling different than normal).
I don't know if I fully agree with that, particularly the memory part of it. Certain people just have those types of memories that are not necessarily tied to flow states/moments. (see Lebron[1], see Sean McVay[2]). I don't think you're wrong in the way you describe how the game slows down, targets get larger, and decisions get easier to make. I think where we differ is your use of "the information they need is simply hyper available" vs. my take that this information resides in the subconscious and our natural feeling to analyze our actions/strategy in-game actually gets in the way of letting our subconscious take over. Perhaps we're arguing semantics here?
Over the past few months I've been studying mushin (no mind) with the goal of understanding the concept better, and possibly laying out proactive steps one can take to put themselves in a position to experience mushin. I'm about 70% through all the readings (Unfettered Mind, Zen in the Art of Archery, Kakusei-Mushin, some Alan Watts videos on the subject, some Zen Koan videos, and more).
So far, it's very evident that the feeling of being in a "flow state" or "just doing it" is not something that simply happens out of nowhere. A precursor to that mind state is rigorous training and practice. Zen in the Art of Archery is a great read for getting a grasp on this concept. Basically, your goal is to perform without any thought, having a clear mind without any judgments or intentions, to the point in which you become one with the action/goal (anyone who has played sports may have experienced those games in which you almost black out during a great scoring streak, not even recognizing what's happening in the moment). BUT, to get to that point, you need to learn all the proper movements and formations and build muscle memory, which requires a ton of intentional thought and analysis. Basically, you need to learn as a stepping stone to unlearning.
Turning 40 this year with my first kid expected on my birthday. I've progressively become "happier" with each decade (maybe half decade, actually). That's not solely because of this supposed wisdom that comes with age, but much more because I put a lot of time and effort into myself. The flip side of aging is that a lot of my friends never outgrew "bad habits" from younger years and now they are stuck with them. A lot of drinking, quite a bit of pill use, and a lack of purpose outside of work/hanging out/consuming entertainment. I also see older folks fall into the trappings of tying their "happiness" to things that can be purchased, which of course isn't actually happiness.
> Let's start with curbing speech that encourages harming others.
You've already disproven your "that's pretty easy" note. Who defines "harm"? The goal posts seem to move damn near weekly on this. That's the problem that can't be solved as easily as you purport.
This. Though I would slightly amend this with "the threat of violence" vs. simply "aggression." The problem with aggression sans any violence is that those being aggressed against will eventually call your bluff. The threat of violence requires the existence of violence sometimes occurring to make that threat real.
> There are 2 ways to fix vicious circles like with "flat earth"
1) make people spend more time on round earth videos
2) change the AI
There's a 3rd. It's complex, difficult (to execute and prove), and hardly ever pushed. Put the onus on individuals to be realistic, honest, self aware, and diligent. Sure, it's not easy, not clean, and will likely lose more than it wins in the short term. But ignoring it completely is just...dangerous. Continuing to ask Daddy to change the world for you breeds less-than-desirable attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions. This concerns me more than any Internet video does.
Go further down the rabbit hole on that one; is makeup a form of fraud? Heels / lifts? Push up bras? Instagram has simply accelerated and magnified what already happens in good ol' regular life (and introduced mass distribution of it).
What does "connection" mean to you in this instance? That's the sticking point here. If a "connection" is simply "I can see a post written by that person every now and then" well, I'm gonna go ahead and say ridding yourself of that won't actually harm you socially. I absolutely question self-defined "relationships" that are held together by mass broadcasts of carefully crafted messages. For me, that's not a relationship. Granted, that's not a decision for me to make, but regardless. I fear we've all redefined what a "relationship" is without actually considering the ramifications.
> But this addiction is much easier to break for most people than an addiction to something like say cigarettes (or even sugar).
Physically? I presume you're right. But here's the problem; you don't need cigarettes to accomplish any other expected, daily task in your life. You need your phone for a whole bunch of useful tasks that aren't health-depleting. I once read someone explain eating disorders in a similar way. You still need to eat, so you can't simply kick the root of your problem out of your life forever.
Schmeh. You should do EVERYTHING in the early stages, because you simply do not know what will work and what won't. You have assumptions, but ego can get in the way here. Paid users are not always less valuable (talking LTV here) than organic. There are a bunch of really important things you can learn by doing paid ads early on, specifically around potential audience demographics, messaging, site behavior, conversion funnels, CAC, etc. Don't listen to marketers, just do everything and learn a bunch.
Article isn't about getting angry. And it's not necessarily about volume of cuteness, but rather intensity of a singular moment of cuteness. When my wife hugs our cat and he's being all cat cute like, she'll remark how she wants to squeeze the life out of him because she just can't stand how cute he is. I feel like that's rather common, and has no tie to anger or actual physical aggression.
That's a bit reductionist. You're not considering the full context (which, of course, I didn't lay out) of the targeting + the ad + the rest of the landing page. It wasn't click bait. Taboola and Outbrain click bait has shite conversions, that's one way to measure "click bait" (it's not called "conversion bait" for a reason).
Best landing page I ever designed/wrote had this headline: "Fuck it, we like Reddit and we got some shit to sell." By every single metric (views, clicks, time spent on page, conversions), it murdered every other landing page in that campaign. Point is: experiment, have fun, be creative, copy other people's work, add your own flair, do things totally against best practices and logic. Marketing isn't a set-it-and-forget-it kind of activity. It's always moving.
To be clear, you're saying that people whose job is to - quite literally - understand, diagnose, and treat hundreds (thousands?) of medical issues that they personally haven't experienced, don't have the capacity to understand that not everyone is on their same sleep schedule?
Which is almost 20 years after he began writing (according to your link). The point is, he didn't start writing at 45. Not that you're implying that, but I see plenty of pieces about people making it big when they're older, but those same pieces fail to shine as bright a light on the years and years of toiling and craft-honing that led the person to that moment.
The problem here, in this naive view, is how you define an "investigation." The moment that "investigation" goes public around the topic of sexual harassment (or worse), the accused is done. That's the real world. I've seen it, several times over. That's important. You shouldn't have the power to significantly wreck someone's life by just making an accusation. There needs to be as much protection for the accused as there is for the accuser.
I think we're saying the same thing here. Look at all sides. Don't make blanket judgments. One person's experience does not necessarily become another's. Science is good, but not a guarantee.