As someone in my discord server said - “the best way to make politicians anti-facial recognition might be to use it on them”.
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@unimagine On the one hand this is stupid because being on your phone or computer doesnt mean you arent paying attention.
On the other hand if it pisses off politicians and gets them in trouble for stupid shit maybe it will get them to hate facial recognition and start taking it seriously... so maybe its stupid in the most brilliant of ways...
@freemo @unimagine Scientifically speaking, the human brain cannot do real multitasking, so they are not really paying attention.
This guy knows about the question 😁
This professor of Cognitive Psychology is obviously just projecting his insecurities on others. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. 🙄
I dunno, I'd say the multiple authors and peer review professors of psychology that proved him wrong experimentally knew more about what they were talking about than the one phd that wrote an opinion piece to the contrary.
@danjones000 Put your money where your mouth is.. I will bet you I can get on webcam with you, type out the fibonaci sequence as you talk, and when im done I can recite anything you said... Willing to bet you 100$ in cryptocurrency I wont even flinch.
If you’ve memorized the Fibonacci sequence, that’s meaningless. You’d just be working on muscle memory. I do that all the time.
I think about something that I’m about to type. Then, I start typing. Someone can come into the office and talk to me, but I’ll continue typing, and talk to the person at the same time, because I’ve already done the focus I need to to decide what to type. My fingers are just working on their own at that point.
I can do that because of the many many years of experience I have with a computer keyboard. As long as I’ve already done the mental work beforehand, the physical work is nothing.
That’s not true multi-tasking, because it doesn’t actually require paying attention to two things at once, unlike the original topic at hand.
@danjones000 then we do the fibonaci sequence but you get to pick the starting 2 seed numbers. That way you know I didnt memorize it.
@freemo
Here’s the real issue. You (and these psychologists) are talking about two different things, and calling them both multi-tasking.
True multi-tasking is doing two things at the same time. People don’t really do that. Not efficiently.
The studies you linked aren’t talking about that. What they’re actually talking about is efficient task switching. This is the thing that you’re talking about that can be learned.
The problem with this is that the original point in all of this conversation isn’t about efficient task-switching, it’s about true multi-tasking, in this case, doing something on your phone, while also listening to a speaker.
You talk about these two things as if they are one, but they aren’t.
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