kgalias comments on SRG 4: Biological Cognition, BCIs, Organizations - Less Wrong

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Comment author: skeptical_lurker 07 October 2014 07:16:36AM 1 point [-]

With diet, modafinil, etc this might already be the case. Sugar alone makes it more difficult to concentrate for many people, as well as having many other deleterious effects. Yet all many people do is say "you can have your chocolate, but only after you take your ritalin"

Comment author: kgalias 08 October 2014 11:07:25AM 1 point [-]

Sugar alone makes it more difficult to concentrate for many people, as well as having many other deleterious effects.

What do you mean?

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 08 October 2014 12:06:16PM 1 point [-]

I mean, if you are oscillating between sugar highs and crashes, it is difficult to concentrate, plus it causes diabetes etc..

Comment author: kgalias 08 October 2014 12:13:42PM *  3 points [-]

Is this what you have in mind?

Sugar does not cause hyperactivity in children.[230][231] Double-blind trials have shown no difference in behavior between children given sugar-full or sugar-free diets, even in studies specifically looking at children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or those considered sensitive to sugar.[232]

wikipedia

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 08 October 2014 12:58:47PM 4 points [-]

No, I have this in mind:

The results indicate that children's performance declines throughout the morning and that this decline can be significantly reduced following the intake of a low GI cereal as compared with a high GI cereal on measures of accuracy of attention (M=-6.742 and -13.510, respectively, p<0.05) and secondary memory (M=-30.675 and -47.183, respectively, p<0.05).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17224202

Comment author: kgalias 08 October 2014 05:35:57PM 2 points [-]

I don't have time to evaluate which view is less wrong.

Still, I was somewhat surprised when I saw your first comment.

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 08 October 2014 05:48:56PM 1 point [-]

Upvoted for not wasting time!

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