The AI writing here is so hard to read I honestly couldn’t finish the article.
“It’s not X, it’s Y” is a turn of speech that has to be consciously removed from a polite society.
Study finds memory decline surge in young people
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bacteria (and your body) like sugar because it’s an easy to use fuel source. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with having reasonable amounts of sugar in your diet.
The catch is that the body likes lots of things that are awful for it. For instance drug abuse isn't limited to humans - some bears have gotten addicted to huffing gas to get high. [1] Quite cute if it wasn't so awful! The big issue is that in modern times a whole bunch of things are going wrong - testosterone levels (adjusted for health/bmi/age) are declining, IQ is declining [2], basically every single psychologica…
> So a precautionary principle approach to consumption is to consider what we evolved with and sugar definitely wasn't that. Sugar only really took off in the 19th century.
We have evidence that apiculture has been a thing for well over 8,000 years.
Our bodies literally love to burn glucose as fuel and we perform better physically (and mentally I assume) when glucose is readily available.
We have literally evolved to be sugar burning machines.
Just don’t eat too much of it and you’ll be fine.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bacteria (and your body) like sugar because it’s an easy to use fuel source. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with having reasonable amounts of sugar in your diet.
What is the reasonable amount? Could it be less than we currently have in many diets?
Less than the average American diet, probably. Less than other diets? It depends.
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#54I'm not sure it's social media as much as just mobile phones. I used to memorize phone numbers, addresses, directions, short notes, etc. Memory works like a muscle - use it or lose it.
Likely both, the phone acts as an easy access point to social media, making the two a mentally lethal cocktail.
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#55> Those 4.5 million survey responses were gathered over a decade I'd feel more confident about the results of this research if it didn't entirely depend on self-reported data from a survey. At least in this case it was a phone survey and not just an internet questionnaire posted to social media sites. I'd put more faith in a much smaller sample of young people being professionally evaluated for memory problems. The s…
With rising ADHD awareness and corresponding academic waivers and medications used to enhance academic performance, I'm surprised the results are not much higher among students. I'm disappointed the paper failed to address the limitations of the study. Note that the effect was stronger with wealth, as expected for performance- and excuse-seeking behaviors in high-achieving households.
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#56The AI writing here is so hard to read I honestly couldn’t finish the article. “It’s not X, it’s Y” is a turn of speech that has to be consciously removed from a polite society.
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#57The surging decline in typewriters in the 90's had nothing to do with how bad typewriters were or how they were used.
It's a symptom of society barrelling toward exponential progress more than a pathology imo
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#58I'm not sure it's social media as much as just mobile phones. I used to memorize phone numbers, addresses, directions, short notes, etc. Memory works like a muscle - use it or lose it.
Not only we don't use it, but it seems that everything we see is of no value at all, streams of meaningless events
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#59I think it has little or nothing to do with screens. Young people are just adapting to a society that thinks of people who remember things as annoying at best and troublemakers or terrorists at worst. We've become a say the words society, not a have something to say society. You don't have to remember for very long in order to repeat something, in fact it can become a problem because you'll remember back when you were told to repeat the opposite.
It's also very difficult to claim to be a victim if everyone still remembers what you did.
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#60I'm not sure it's social media as much as just mobile phones. I used to memorize phone numbers, addresses, directions, short notes, etc. Memory works like a muscle - use it or lose it.
Not only we don't use it, but it seems that everything we see is of no value at all, streams of meaningless events
This is more important than you know.
Since "A variety of memory systems are regulated by dopamine in the brain." [1], being force feed stimulation after stimulation will affect memory due to the diminishing release of dopamine of less stimulating events.
Being from the first year of Gen X I lived both of these lives. I remember reading newspapers on the subway going to work in Manhattan, having to focus to scan the small stock market print. Yes the news was stimulating, but comparatively slow and limited. I could never read the news at work, but in my later years, working in tech, it was a constant thing throughout the day.
Dopamine if the fuel of capitalism, even illegal capitalism, like the drug trade. This is not dismissive of capitalism, it is just a truth. The only thing that changed is that humanity has found a newer, stronger way to milk dopamine out of the human brain.
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/edited-volume/...