achiral comments on Open thread, August 5-11, 2013 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: David_Gerard 05 August 2013 06:50AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 06 August 2013 10:32:58PM 1 point [-]

they sit down and barely move. That's pretty much the antithesis of what normal people enjoy.

You know there's a huge fraction of the people in the developed world who willingly spend a sizeable fraction of their waking time watching TV, right?

Comment author: achiral 07 August 2013 04:46:38AM 0 points [-]

Watching TV is not an intellectual activity in any real sense. Most TV stimulates the senses and evokes emotions in the viewer through storylines and such. This is obviously very different from studying mathematics seriously.