Just realized I now associate “computer takes a while to do a thing” with a special or high quality interaction. 

Means something real is happening 

ChatGPT responses, minting / onchain tx, etc.

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absolutely anything can become a status or luxury marker

Isn’t the more accurate framing that if you’re willing to wait for the computer to take a while, it must be a high quality interaction? For example, slow websites are just a pain, there’s nothing golden there

Back in the days when I worked as full stack developer, sometimes we built in an artificial wait time in API call handlers to take longer to make it feel more important

I've subtly noticed the same feeling, but interesting to put it into words this way. Kind of a "do you want it done, or do you want it done right" type of feeling

I noticed the same observation, why I always felt like the mint via frames lacked the same energy as normal minting

Quality output == more processing and computation == more time and/or resources