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Right but you don't get in car accidents or near-accidents often. Ergo your brain becomes wired for the 99.9999999% of driving that is completely uneventful. H
by estearum 1mo ago
Right but you don't get in car accidents or near-accidents often. Ergo your brain becomes wired for the 99.9999999% of driving that is completely uneventful.
Hunters are a self-selecting group of people who enjoy the activity you describe. If you don't like it or can't do it, you just don't do it.
Virtually every single adult in America has to drive, however, to live a functional life.
- kelipso 1mo agoYou are avoiding cars constantly when driving with a non-zero amount of traffic. Way more incidents than predators in the savanna while doing persistence hunting.
- estearum 1mo agoNot sure what you're arguing. Your brain gets used to in-distribution events. Car accidents (and the conditions that cause them) are out-of-distribution events. It's that simple.
- kelipso 1mo agoThat’s not how the brain works. It is evolutionary adapted to stay alert for out of distribution events.
- estearum 1mo agoCorrect, and by the time an out of distribution event happens in a car, you are milliseconds from collision (if that). Most car accidents are effectively instantaneous. The fact your brain perks up as a bumper is coming through your side window is not very helpful.
- rogerrogerr 1mo agoI try to watch car crash dashcam videos once a month or so on Reddit or YouTube. I feel like it recalibrates my brain to be more aware of the things that could happen that are out on the tail end of the distribution, like you say.
- estearum 1mo agoThat is interesting! Yeah I suspect that would help a ton. Do you do this for the purpose of calibrating your brain? Or more just some morbid curiosity of yours? :D
- rogerrogerr 1mo agoEh, I think it started out as morbid curiosity and then I noticed it changed how I drove. Seemed like a good idea to do deliberately.