Nire Bryce

@NireBryce

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'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

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Nire Bryce @NireBryce2/9/2023, 7:03 PM

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Nire Bryce @NireBryce2/9/2023, 7:25 AM

has anyone done brain plasticity studies to see if being in a place where you don't need your job to survive, and having your needs met brings back the plasticity we "age out of" because i have a not even hypothesis forming

#nire-ideas #if you're going to soapbox on this please read it thanks #and at least Google brain plasticity #yes yes the problem is capitalism. but this isn't Twitter #you don't need to propagandize on my post. "capitalism bad" is table stakes. stop acting like this is Twitter.#we need to be able to talk about nuance and complexity in order to find ways to break it. we don't do that by flattening it to the first thing everyone already knows on the left #if your trying to recruit followers just know that yelling it doesn't actually make people shift #tldr read the whole post instead of inventing one and restating the reasoning for why anyone would run such a study at all at me as if I'm both stupid and an adversary

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cat @catball2/9/2023, 7:28 PM

I think that would be a cool study. So much of work conditions us to turn off our brains to do stupid menial tasks forever. We have studies that doing cognitively engaging stuff helps prevent Alzheimer’s and dementia, wouldn’t be surprised if that would extend to plasticity

Nire Bryce @NireBryce2/9/2023, 7:39 PM

i don't think it's that, or, rather, I think that's separate. its pretty clear to me from observing, well, friends burning out, general work sentiments from people across many professions and trades, and people's reports after retirement that it's almost as if you're draining a well and then scraping muddy water out of the bottom for the rest of it unless you can recover to a point that there's a buffer again.

people just... stop being able to retain new information without a lot of memorization afaict, and then because school taught that, assume it's fine

I only dodge this occasionally by sleeping all day outside of obligations instead of having a life, but my refill is much slower too so it's unclear if it's directly applicable.

but yeah i think that's a great point and worthy of its own study

cat @catball2/9/2023, 8:22 PM

Oh gotcha, thanks for clarifying. Yeah, that sounds like it makes sense too. I kinda wanna go read more about brain plasticity now :)

Nire Bryce @NireBryce2/9/2023, 8:25 PM

FWIW here's one i read last night https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25047996/

"Hyperplasticity in Autism Spectrum Disorder [may confer] protection from Alzheimer's disease"

(brackets are mine, I've got no peer reviewer to impress with certainty)

i haven't finished reading it yet outside of first-pass

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