JulianMorrison comments on Ureshiku Naritai - Less Wrong

119 Post author: Alicorn 08 April 2010 08:08PM

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Comment author: Alicorn 10 April 2010 05:42:51PM 1 point [-]

Possibly relevant is that I find it virtually impossible to single-task in general. I am massively parallel, and I'm accustomed to being aware of several processors at once. I can shut one down without it being a big deal; trying to do it to all of them simultaneously gets the result I described.

Comment author: JulianMorrison 10 April 2010 07:42:05PM 0 points [-]

That's nifty and interesting too - can you identify the "processors"? What threads are you running?

I can't multitask worth a damn on anything but one conscious thread and N unconscious threads - and those tend to drag to a crawl if one of them is important and needs monitoring.

Comment author: Alicorn 10 April 2010 08:54:44PM 2 points [-]

Luminosity in general lets me drag the "unconscious threads" into consciousness and control them better. But even before that I needed to be doing lots of things. I don't know how many processors I have and they don't have all the same features; my guess is I have two or three main ones that can do most things and another three or four that are very limited in what tasks they can do (these handle things like dealing with my sensory input). I have to do a lot of conscious handling of sensory input, which makes this less impressive than it would be.

Comment author: Swimmer963 10 May 2011 09:24:20PM 0 points [-]

That's really interesting. Kind of cool that you're aware of that.