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Something paradoxical about wishing to create more information and simultaneously wishing to consume less of it.
by bradhe 4y ago
Something paradoxical about wishing to create more information and simultaneously wishing to consume less of it.
- rex_lupi 4y agoNothing paradoxical. Creation and consumption are two opposite things. Creation requires active brainpower. Passively consuming what others have already created just devoids one's brain of the creative powers.
- kimburgess 4y agoAlso, on the topic of note taking, creation does't necessarily mean for others.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- slothtrop 4y agoI think this misses the point the other user probably tried to make. Yes, it can be good to bias towards taking action particularly when passive consumption is the prevailing habit. That need not take the form of creating more fodder for consumption, which can appear redundant. Absent all the niceties of modern life that deliver the means of this consumption, people in general were not full-bore creatives (I believe this is consistent even if you account for leisure time).
- alberto7 4y agoExcept information is never really "consumed", more like "copied and integrated".
- nayuki 4y agoNot really. Doing so would lower the average number of readings per article. In the most extreme case, this would lead to every article being write-only and never read by anyone. Of course this is absurd because writing takes so much more effort than reading, and the vast majority of people will be consumers without writing anything (except short private chats).