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Comment author: gwern 23 February 2010 05:53:11PM 1 point [-]

Dual-n-back training. I can rely on this to drastically reduce anxiety, flightiness, improve concentration. It also seems to whet my appetite for intellectual work and increase purposefulness across the board. +8

Can I use this for my/the DNB FAQ?

Comment author: erm 24 February 2010 12:11:09PM 0 points [-]

You may do, but you might end up including me twice, as I have posted similar thoughts elsewhere, under a different name (cev).

Comment author: gwern 24 February 2010 03:05:25PM 0 points [-]

Oh; I do have you already then, under

“I think I’ve put my finger on a particular benefit of dnb training: it seems to help my brain’s ‘internal clock’ - I am better able to order my thoughts in time."

But no reason I couldn't quote you twice as the quotes differ?

Comment author: erm 24 February 2010 03:12:57PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, sure - I couldn't remember what I may have said earlier.

Comment author: wedrifid 24 February 2010 01:06:26PM 0 points [-]

Where is this FAQ? Is it something here that I have missed?

Comment author: gwern 24 February 2010 03:07:36PM *  1 point [-]

It's a FAQ I've been compiling/writing for the Dual N-Back mailing list; you can find the latest link here: http://gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ

(That's just the static HTML version, though, which I sometimes update; the real latest Markdown is in my Darcs repo: https://patch-tag.com/r/gwern/Gwern/home .)

Comment author: Kevin 24 February 2010 01:08:50PM *  1 point [-]

Yeah, is this published yet? Whatever you are working on, or something similar, could be a top-level post here.

Comment author: gwern 24 February 2010 03:10:21PM *  3 points [-]

I don't think my FAQ is appropriate for the top-level, as DNB is to me still in the twilight zone of effectiveness - unlike, say, melatonin.

Part of the problem is that the academic research (specifically Jaeggi 2008 and Jaeggi 2010) is flawed (see the Moody section of the FAQ), and the time consumption is massive: I'm willing to stump for melatonin because the time consumption is 1 or 2 seconds a day and the effects are clear; I'm not willing to stump for something with unclear (if possibly much more valuable) effects and consuming on the order of 20 minutes a day.

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