Artaxerxes comments on Open thread, Oct. 12 - Oct. 18, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timujin 14 October 2015 10:16:01AM *  3 points [-]

I've lost my curiosity. I have noticed that over the course of the last year, I have become significantly less curious. I no longer feel the need to know anything unless I need it, I don't understand how it is possible to desire knowledge for the sake of knowledge (even though the past me definitely did), I generally find myself unable to empathize with knowledge-seekers and the virtue of curiosity. That worries me a lot, because if you asked me two years earlier, I would have named curiosity as my main characteristic and the desire for knowledge my main driving force. Thinking over the last year, I can't remember any life-changing experiences that would have warranted the change. May it have been the foods I ate, or some neurological damage? I would have attributed it to brain aging, if I weren't twenty. What happened? How to reverse it? I find it crippling.

Comment author: Artaxerxes 14 October 2015 10:49:01AM 2 points [-]

You could be depressed.

Comment author: timujin 14 October 2015 11:47:54AM 2 points [-]

I don't feel depressed at all. In the contrary, I am quite motivated, agitated and sort of happy.