It frightens me that I'm only 23 and my memory has noticeably declined since I was in my teens.
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann
hello from 29 I need to write notes for myself like the protagonist in memento
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann @bitemyapp
hmmm still going strong in lower 30s I try to make a point of memorizing strings of numbers from AMZN, govt agencies, phone numbers, 40 character passwords, that sort of thing just to stay sharp unsure whether this has any effect
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yes but you're a robot.
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Replying to @AmbrosialArts @eigenrobot and
I am also a robot. But you are a number-bot. I am a word-bot. I read dictionaries as a child. For fun. I have good recall for such things and also obscure rules from style manuals. Ancient story-fragments I never wrote from 10 years ago are still conjurable from my brain.
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Replying to @AmbrosialArts @eigenrobot and
However, some tradeoffs did happen. Because my experience of myself is less continuous than others, I don't have the good recall that many others do for their childhood. I am not in the right mental "frame" to recall a whole lot. Instead, it is easier to dream of the future.
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> Because my experience of myself is less continuous than others Elaborate?
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microsleep?
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Some people feel like they woke up one day and have been the same person ever since, so our current moral intuitions about individuality, personhood, reparative vs. retributive justice, et cetera, feel obvious to them. ...I do not feel this way.
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Oh wow same Everything extremely tenuous
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I bet this ties into time preference somehow
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Maybe. Multiple Major Fragmentations happened and time/planning horizon did expand a bit each time one happened.
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