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Math/ML/data-science person now working on solving aging...and helping with COVID19?! Founder, LRI and Daphnia Labs. Married to @oscredwin

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    1. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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      h/t @vgr https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2790864/pdf/nihms156796.pdf …

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    2. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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      " When time is perceived as open-ended, goals that become most highly prioritized are most likely to be those that are preparatory, focused on gathering information, on experiencing novelty, and on expanding breadth of knowledge."

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    3. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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      When time is perceived as constrained, the most salient goals will be those that can be realized in the short-term, sometimes in their very pursuit. Under such conditions, goals tend to emphasize feeling states"

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    4. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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      Old people, and the terminally ill and survivors of disasters like Sept. 11, are less interested in open-ended learning and novelty seeking, and more interested in focusing on existing relationships and directly trying to keep their mood up.

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    5. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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      "Recently, research has indicated a special preference for emotionally positive information over emotionally negative information in memory in older adults."

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    6. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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      Reminds me of the Meryl Streep quote: "I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me."

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    7. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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      Learning unpleasant (but possibly important) things might seem valuable if you have a long life ahead of you, when you might make use of that information. If not, why put yourself through the misery? May as well focus on the positive.

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    8. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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      This is related to "sense of a foreshortened future", the phenomenon in which trauma makes people reluctant to plan because they feel like their lives are somehow "already over."https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01026/full …

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    9. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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      If you combine both papers, you get a theory in which the old are mildly traumatized; like survivors of disasters, they feel that starting new things is futile because they don't have enough time left to complete them.

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    10. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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      Unlike trauma victims, older adults are actually happier than younger adults, so the analogy's not exact, but there's a resemblance in the way they engage with time.

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      Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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      This theory would predict that, for instance, if new medical discoveries gave us 20 more years of life expectancy, 60-year-olds would think differently than they do now; they'd be more interested in learning, new projects, and receiving bad news and criticism.

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        2. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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          Some of my friends (eg @HiFromMichaelV) see it as a big problem that people seem to have declined in their willingness to have open-ended, sometimes troubling intellectual conversations. Seems related to this.

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        3. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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          The theory may simply imply that for any given person, they're going to be less interested in open-ended intellectual conversation as they age, so that you notice your friends talking and exploring less and less over a ten-year time period.

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        4. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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          (Not sure this is a sufficient explanation for the widespread impression that "discourse quantity and quality has declined", just that it could be a factor.)

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        5. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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          The experimental fact that older adults are happier than young adults, along with the observations that they focus more attention on positive things, despite the obvious fact that aging is uncomfortable, seems to suggest a weird model of happiness/well-being.

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        6. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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          What if people are more interested in "darker", more troubling topics when they are confident they have the strength and resources to deal with them, while they become more "conservative" about guarding their positive outlook when they're in a position of true scarcity?

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        7. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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          Also related: construal level, something @robinhanson talks a lot about. "Far mode" seems to go with the "young person style" of caring more about learning, novelty, and starting new long-term projects; "near mode" with the "old person style" about living more "in the moment."

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        8. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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          If you have all the time in the world, starting new, open-ended, exploratory things, which may have large vague spots on the map, is appealing, because you can firm up the details later. You have the time to do it all.

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        9. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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          If you have limited time (and limited capacities), you want to limit your attention to things you can actually get done, which means more modest, more concrete, more immediately enjoyable, more "near mode."

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          Achieving long-term goals is of course a matter of building a long-term, far-mode aspiration out of near-mode, concrete building blocks. If this is connected to age, maybe it's important to have more collaborations between older and younger adults.

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        11. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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          (This only works if there's mutual respect though; I don't think it would be any good for old or young people to shame each other for having different priorities.)

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        12. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 14
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          (moi qui balance entre deux ages... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMALuEYxK6U …)

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