tip: at your next extremely low mood state, film yourself trying to solve some puzzles. watch it when in better mood to get detailed knowledge of your state-specific cognitive deficits
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Replying to @gracecondition
I think it's just "bad mood or low energy -> limited WM available for effortful things-> trying things without thinking through their consequences very deeply -> bad choices"
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Replying to @preinfarction
that feels true a lot of the time, but in an extremely low state, it seems like there is some deeper kind of stupidification going on
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Replying to @gracecondition
No backchaining: can't guess which moves enable local desired changes. No evaluation: can't guess whether a move is an improvement even according to a relaxation heuristic. No intent momentum: can't see how game state differs from start or goal, don't know why/how you got there.
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Replying to @preinfarction @gracecondition
Can't see that the situation you're facing is functionally just like one you've solved a hundred times before
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Giving up on experiments more readily when problems arise. Narrower focus of attention, maybe, or it's stickier in a way that doesn't lend to ignoring distractors: focussing because you can't spontaneously reorient, rather than focussing because the EV of attending is high.
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