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That "set your attention" slider is a cool idea I've never seen before. It's also painfully hard to use (the maximum attention setting involved 4 overlapping a
by Bartweiss 10y ago
That "set your attention" slider is a cool idea I've never seen before.
It's also painfully hard to use (the maximum attention setting involved 4 overlapping animations at one point), and scary in a factual relativity sort of sense I've never even tried to pin down. It vaguely reminds me of the sort of manipulation NewsDiffs was created to counter - stories changing tone and even facts in real time with no acknowledgement of that fact.
I don't see any sign of that happening on this page, but imagine one of those sliders with conflicting content at different attention levels. I find it creepy on a level I have trouble explaining.
- peteratt 10y agoThat is exactly what caught my attention, barring the pseudo-dystopian theme. I'd say that a different arrangement (e.g. a short TL;DR followed by a Learn More, and finally by the full whitepaper) would seem more "natural". That slider you can modify at will depending on your current attention span seems strangely creepy for reasons beyond my current human psychology understanding.
- Bartweiss 10y agoThat's a good observation. I've seen a couple of things offer successive "takes" of increasing complexity, and always thought it was an interesting idea. At a first guess, my bad reaction to the slider was based on an intuitive fear that the differences would be something more substantive than best-effort restatements of one idea.