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Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Imposing conditions that would have been evidence about optimal behaviour in the EEA - Less Wrong

11 Post author: D_Malik 15 March 2013 01:01AM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 15 March 2013 03:19:18AM * 3 points [-]

What does science say?

There's some evidence that hunger may improve memory. Is this the kind of evidence you're looking for?

Comment author: MichaelHoward 15 March 2013 03:52:32AM 3 points [-]

See also this post.

You learn most quickly immediately after ending a long fast. Your brain thinks you just learned something that saved it from starvation.

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 17 March 2013 02:46:10AM 1 point [-]

I have lowered my prior for these kinds of explanations being correct; maybe it's the sudden surge of nutrients that does something to the memory? Who knows, but it reads like evopsych-inspired version of the narrative fallacy. If it works empirically, great, if it doesn't I'm not going to ask "why did my brain not react as if being saved from starvation"?

Comment author: MichaelHoward 17 March 2013 02:32:58PM 0 points [-]

See also that post.