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by jfengel 1894 days ago
Stimulation and information are different. You can feel stimulated by things that aren't really informative, like movies and video games.

Even a lot of "informative" content has very low information content. A lot of news media packages little information in a very engaging way. Sadly, a lot of podcasts and TED talks follow the same playbook. (Those podcasts are my own particular addictive weakness.)