Victoria (Spain)
Key Insight: The Drop in Curiosity
Victoria is observing a concerning decline in curiosity levels, even among people who willingly attend learning workshops.
Main Observation
Context: Designing courses for companies, leading workshops
Pattern: People who:
- Willingly attend workshops
- Say they are interested in learning
- Yet when she posts questions or conversation triggers in the community
- Nobody responds
Conclusion: "How curiosity is dropping in our world"
Impact: She's "taking notes about and trying to understand" this phenomenon
Other Activities
- Writing a novel
- Researching "how people seek certainty"
- Had a workshop session to attend (had to leave call early)
Chat Contributions
Látigo Discussion: Early in call, mentioned something related to which hand held the "látigo" (whip in Spanish) - apologized for not knowing the English word
Leaving Early: "Now that we reach the transition, I'll take the opportunity to go ;)"
The Curiosity Conversation
Victoria's observation sparked a rich discussion in the chat:
Scott Moehring's Response
"I was thinking about your comment about the loss of curiosity. I'm wondering how much is a loss of available attention? I am a highly curious person, and yet I'm engaging less because I have less available attention. We have killed boredom with the constant stream of information everywhere, and I think one symptom shows up as a loss of curiosity."
Pete Kaminski's Response
"A great conversation. I'm a very curious person by nature, and observationally, I see a lot of people who are incurious. I'm torn between whether it's a typical human development as people grow up, or our educational system that trains passion and agency out of people, or sort of a social contagion to be incurious as a way to deal with too much future."
AI Observation: "The place I see the curious/incurious split happen is when someone plays with an AI. Curious people use it quickly as a bicycle (or jet plane) for the mind; incurious people do the equivalent of trying to use the bicycle as a hammer or a chair, and discard it as terrible at the small uses they can think of."
Jerry Michalski's Response
"I think the latter" (referring to Pete's theories)
"I blame the consumerization of our world, which dumbs us down"
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