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LizzardWizzard comments on Brainstorming new senses - Less Wrong Discussion

28 Post author: lululu 20 May 2015 07:53PM

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Comment author: LizzardWizzard 25 May 2015 11:15:23AM 0 points [-]

I can understand the compass part, it can be very useful and save your life onetime, but time-sense? For what the heck you might need this? In peoples world people wear watches or have timers on their smartphones, and in the world there's no people there's no time

Comment author: TezlaKoil 25 May 2015 02:30:51PM *  1 point [-]

In my case, the answer is simple: tutoring, teaching and lecturing. The feedback of watches and timers is completely inadequate: I can't "profile", I can't adjust my tempo in real time, et c.

Not to say that I prefer to have this information subconsciously. The information from the compass anklet was far more useful (and efficient) than glancing at my smartphone's compass every second would have been.