Rose Horowitz
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180 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 23 Jul
Rose Horowitz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And, you know, I think what we see is that we know from neuroscience that what you practice is what your brain gets good at.
And so as we're reading less, you know, we're going to have less background knowledge to aid in comprehension.
We're kind of going to have a less rational, analytical, you know, mode of thinking.
You know, we're sort of more accustomed to switching our attention and less accustomed to a kind of like linear extended focus on something.
Even two decades ago, the average attention span on a screen was two and a half minutes.
And five years ago, it was 47 seconds.
Right.
Well, I was trying to leave open that possibility.
You know, we do see, even as we see on tests that, you know, it appears that IQs have been declining for the past, you know, two decades.
At the same time, we are doing better on some forms of spatial rotation.
So I definitely wanted to leave open the possibility that there could be these like cognitive benefits that we just don't understand and that this is a trade-off, but what we get will end up being worth it.
And I think it's too soon to tell if that's possible.
Yeah, so what I meant by that was that it's sort of difficult to imagine Trump being elected in a country where information is primarily spread through text.
But he really understands how to kind of grab attention and keep it in this post-literate age.
So, you know, we see that he actually has kind of retrieved a lot of conventions from pre-literate times.
You know, he contradicts himself as though there's no record of what he said before.
He speaks with a lot of emotion, you know, often anger.
And that's just easier to remember than, you know, when someone gives a sort of dispassionate speech.
We also see that he uses these kind of epithets that almost call back to Homer in the way that, you know, the poet described people.
You know, he says, like, Sleepy Joe, Crooked Hillary, and that's just way easier to remember and repeat, and you just start to associate it.
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