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by wruza 3138 days ago
Split format (ymd/hms) doesn’t feel as fatal to me as e.g. 1 167 607 224 seconds remaining, where each week eats 0,05% and each year is ~ 31 557 000. It would be also nice to make time much slower at the beginning and much faster towards the end, as it really is IRL.
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> It would be also nice to make time much slower at the beginning and much faster towards the end, as it really is IRL.

I find this effect kind of terrifying. I'm in my early 30s and would estimate my perception of time is at least 3x as fast as it was before age 16 or so, maybe 4x. It's definitely getting worse. Even assuming some leveling off, I'm guessing a year at age 70 will feel about as short as a kid's month.

I’m 30+ too. When I discussed with my 70+ grandma on this topic, she laughed and said it will be decades, not just years passing by in a click, starting with 40-50+. We actually crossed our subjective time equator pretty long time ago, dude, no matter how healthy we are.
You can slow it down. Move to new place. Have a kid. You will see that you can only remember what came before as if years passed, when it was less than three months ago.