“Is this a good use of my time?” “No” ”Can I think of a better use of my time?” “Also, no” ”If I could use this time to think of a better use of my time, that would be a better use of my time than the current waste of time I am now, right?” “Yes, if.… but you can’t so it isn’t” ”How can you be so sure?” ″Because, look at how abstract just this little dialogue is—which is wholly representative of the kind of thinking-about-better-uses you’re inclined to do (but may not be generalizable to others). This dialogue of ours is not pertaining directly to any actions of tangible value for you. Just hypothesis and abstracts. It is not a good use of your time.”
“Is this a good use of my time?”
“No”
”Can I think of a better use of my time?”
“Also, no”
”If I could use this time to think of a better use of my time, that would be a better use of my time than the current waste of time I am now, right?”
“Yes, if.… but you can’t so it isn’t”
”How can you be so sure?”
″Because, look at how abstract just this little dialogue is—which is wholly representative of the kind of thinking-about-better-uses you’re inclined to do (but may not be generalizable to others). This dialogue of ours is not pertaining directly to any actions of tangible value for you. Just hypothesis and abstracts. It is not a good use of your time.”