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by pavlov
4329 days ago
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The uncritical worship of data is probably the most irritating aspect of contemporary technology intelligentsia culture. Knowing my own pulse every second is boring and misleading, but knowing someone else's pulse is just plain boring. People obsessing over statistics is not a new phenomenon, but it used to be that the people who memorized World War II logistics details (or whatever) at least knew that their fixation is ultimately meaningless. Nowadays statistics geeks are convinced that they're contributing something important to the world by analyzing and curating their endless log streams. |
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It's important that people realise that hyper-awareness of your body could be harmful. Doctors tell healthy people to avoid full body MRI scans. The reasons are the same. You become aware of stuff which is meaningless noise, but which then triggers action. Even "watchful waiting" is for some people stressful and distracting.