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Why Time Flies By As You Get Older
Ant notes a piece up on WBUR Boston addressing theories to explain the universal human experience that time seems to pass faster as you get older. Here's the 9-minute audio (MP3). Several explanations are tried out: that brains lay down more information for novel experiences; that the "clock" for nerve impulses in aging brains runs slower; and that each interval of time represents a diminishing fraction of life as we age.
I calculated it out, and If you factor in how slow time moves after you die this is pretty obvious.
I'm not falling for that one again.
I dunno, I think I'm getting older because I swear that audio sounded more like 6 minutes...
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
shit, that's a boredom-laced eternity.
> I'd like a defrag please.
...needing to defrag is like saying you need fresh horses...
Hellooo...have you seen the type of brains available now? Six, going on seven layers...adaptive reasoning, darwin-series inhibitors, enlarged stem, v2 fight-or-flight firmware. Things have changed since some people started wearing pants you know.
Trial 1: 67 seconds
Trial 2: 64 seconds
Trial 3: 59 seconds
Age: 23... frak..
I'm sure the Universe is expanding because when I drive to my son's house it seems further away every year. Actually, time goes faster because we accelerate when we go downhill!
"Anyone want to trade bodies?"
Sure, but can you drive a 1959 "Uncle Buck" model without endagering small children?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
"Life is like a roll of toilet paper: the older you get, the faster it goes."
I once took an excursion to Reddit, and later HN. Unlimited up/down voting sucks when dealing with a hive-mind.
If it is phycological that means I just need to change my way of thinking right? Right? Right? Come on... why isn't anyone answering me?
Because you failed phycology
It brings up some interesting ideas for Sci-Fi - an AI could easily have a perception of time hundreds to thousands of times faster than our own. Oh how the days would go on. Plenty of time to dream up things!
Data: She brought me closer to humanity than I ever thought possible, and for a time...I was tempted by her offer.
Jean-Luc Picard: How long a time?
Data: Zero point six eight seconds, sir. For an android, that is nearly an eternity.
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I figured that out all on my own in my mid twenties. Seems like it was just yesterday.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
I've always put it down as either our heads getting bigger, or brain matter getting either denser or more complexly connected. I'd like a defrag please.
My problem is that when I try to learn something new now, I keep getting a "disk full" error.
Hell No!
That last one was ape-shit crazy - and all THIS one does is surf porn and read /.
'nuff said.
I just tried it and fell asleep. Is that a sign I'm getting old?
You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.
Trial 1: 3.5 seconds
Trial 2: 2.7 seconds
Trial 3: 1.8 seconds
Frak, I need to switch to decaf!
What if you could ride a train that goes at the speed of light, away from that boring movie. Would said movie become even more boring?
For what it's worth, I still disagree with the guy but there's got to be some advantage to your youth, if nothing else, think of all the abysmal 1980s technology you skipped right over!
Bugger that! Think of all the abysmal 1980s music you skipped over. A Flock of seagulls, Wham, Adam and The Ants, Human League, Culture Club etc. I don't know how we did it, but we finally realized that just because a synthesizer could make nearly every possible sound, they didn't all have to be in the same song! And the fashion! Dear God, what horrors! - shoulder pads, big hair, jackets with sleeves rolled up, zip-up shoes (remember Ciaks?), scraps of brightly fabric tied everywhere, puffy shirts, skinny leather neckties, faux military uniforms, solitary white gloves. Oh, the humanity!
Ahh - My eye!
The doctor said I'm not supposed to get Slashdot in it!
I seriously don't know why the parent god modded Funny. He should have been modded insightful. I, for one, could not wait for the 80's to be over, for exactly the reasons the parent mentions. The only thing that got me through it was the fact that the 80's also happened to be the golden age of heavy metal. Bands like Dio, Van Halen, AC/DC, Iron Maiden -- all of them peaked in the early-to-mid 80's. The last 3 or 4 years of that decade were pretty grim, though. By that time, even Van Halen and Iron Maiden were using synthesizers quite heavily (although, Van Halen's 1984 album was a great album, synthesizers or not).
Am I a bad man because this thread made me laugh? Go ahead, mod me troll or what have you, I deserve it.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Fuck you, prog rock is life.
Are you sure that was a 9 minute audio file? I could have sworn it felt like it was less than 5.
Yeah but not all 41 trillion operations were devoted entirely to logics in that 0.68 seconds. The Borg queen practically felt him up and kept licking on the that piece of skin on his face. That stimuli is a lot of operations for an android you insensitive clod.
Now I just feel old and depressed. Yay! Thanks, Slashdot!
That depends. How many Werther's Originals are left in the packet on the table next to you?
Ha! It's a trick question! Only old people have Werther's Originals!
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I've thought for close to a decade now that our perception of time slows down as we age. It brings up some interesting ideas for Sci-Fi - an AI could easily have a perception of time hundreds to thousands of times faster than our own. Oh how the days would go on. Plenty of time to dream up things!
The first million years would be the worst. Then the second. They'd be the worst too. After that you'll go into a bit of a decline...