TV commercials are insanely distracting.
- TV commercials are insanely distracting.
- I rarely see them anymore, except when a TV is playing them in a cafe..
- Humans fundamentally pay attention to surprising things.
- Surprising things can update their model of the world.
- TV brings surprising information directly to you.
- You just sit still and stare forward and it beams a never-ending stream of surprising information.
- The ultimate in passive consumption.