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Comment author: Document 26 August 2013 08:22:51PM *  5 points [-]

People are always amazed by how much "free time" I have. They're also amazed that I don't know who Ally McBeal is. Frankly, I'm amazed that they can't make the connection.

-- Robert Wenzlaff (via Eliezer Yudkowsky)

Already someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced.

-- Paul Graham

The function of entertainment is to generate profit and absorb people's time without actually accomplishing anything.

-- BadDalaiLama (via ata)

reconsider whether you need to read fiction at all. If everybody else thought immersing yourself in imaginary worlds was some strange perversion, would you still do it?

-- D_Malik

Comment author: PhilGoetz 26 August 2013 10:21:51PM 3 points [-]

I feel like you didn't read my post. The point is not entertainment.

Comment author: Document 26 August 2013 10:24:23PM 1 point [-]

It's possible I'm experiencing selective blindness. What does your post say the point is, other than that it would be "useful"?

Comment author: PhilGoetz 27 August 2013 03:59:43AM 2 points [-]

Well, what do you know. I didn't really say. Post revised.

Comment author: Document 27 August 2013 07:56:09AM 0 points [-]

Thanks.

I'm still not seeing it, personally. While it's important to understand other points of view, you don't have to make yourself literally feel what another person feels about something to understand it. Even more importantly, you also don't have to understand a point of view to respect it. I feel like your proposal doesn't adequately distinguish the three.

Furthermore, regardless of the "point", consuming popular entertainment is still the actual activity you're suggesting.

(I'm not trying to say the people who like the idea are wrong, although I don't think it'd be worthwhile for me.)

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