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tl;dr anyone please? nytimes.com is blocked over here.

by nazar 15y ago

goblin89 15y ago
Did you know why dogs are fed sugar after obeying commands for some time? It's because a dose of glucose restores the willpower. This stays true for humans. In supermarkets, we are offered sweet snacks at checkout—when we have little willpower, the reason being lots of choices we had to make while shopping. So both a) our brain requires more glucose and b) we can't resist sugar snacks anyway. No matter how junk that food might be. And here's the key— ’Your brain does not stop working when glucose is low. It stops doing some things and starts doing others. It responds more strongly to immediate rewards and pays less attention to long-term prospects.‘ Unfortunately there are areas where decision fatigue might be critical: ‘In midmorning, usually a little before 10:30, the parole board would take a break, and the judges would be served a sandwich and a piece of fruit. The prisoners who appeared just before the break had only about a 20 percent chance of getting parole, but the ones appearing right after had around a 65 percent chance.’ Also, that might be the reason people stay poor: when you don't have a lot of money, you need to make much more tough choices. This depletes people's willpower, and consequently they are worse at other important stuff like education. How to deal with decision fatigue? ‘People with the best self-control are the ones who structure their lives so as to conserve willpower. <…> Even the wisest people won’t make good choices when they’re not rested and their glucose is low. <…> The best decision makers are the ones who know when not to trust themselves.’ Very interesting article, actually. A lot of interesting stuff there. Is there no workaround to access nytimes from your area?
- nazar 15y ago
  Thanks! I can access it through proxy but internet speed is slow, so that would take n seconds, at least it will take more than the time u spent writing your post. So, thanks for effort, interesting stuff, especially for the guy like me who comes from biology to computer science.
pella 15y ago
"Extraneous factors in judicial decisions" http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/03/29/1018033108 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/03/29/1018033108 --- "The science of justice I think it's time we broke for lunch… Court rulings depend partly on when the judge last had a snack" http://www.economist.com/node/18557594 http://www.economist.com/node/18557594
- nazar 15y ago
  >The science of justice That reminds me of the youtube series about justice. There is one channel on youtube, they upload videos from Harvard lectures about justice and law system. That one was very interesting and insightful. Sometimes students would even cry while debating with professor. Sorry cant post a link, since Youtube is also blocked here. Maybe some of you guys can post the link, there might be ones who are interested. Anyways, thanks for the effort of getting the idea of the post!
  - michael_scheibe 15y ago
    http://www.justiceharvard.org/ http://www.justiceharvard.org/ If you want to get a bit more out of the series, there are links to readings and discussion questions on the right of an episode page.

tl;dr anyone please? nytimes.com is blocked over here.

by nazar 15y ago

tl;dr anyone please? nytimes.com is blocked over here.

Did you know why dogs are fed sugar after obeying commands for some time? It's because a dose of glucose restores the willpower. This stays true for humans. In supermarkets, we are offered sweet snacks at checkout—when we have little willpower, the reason being lots of choices we had to make while shopping. So both a) our brain requires more glucose and b) we can't resist sugar snacks anyway. No matter how junk that food might be. And here's the key— ’Your brain does not stop working when glucose is low. It stops doing some things and starts doing others. It responds more strongly to immediate rewards and pays less attention to long-term prospects.‘ Unfortunately there are areas where decision fatigue might be critical: ‘In midmorning, usually a little before 10:30, the parole board would take a break, and the judges would be served a sandwich and a piece of fruit. The prisoners who appeared just before the break had only about a 20 percent chance of getting parole, but the ones appearing right after had around a 65 percent chance.’ Also, that might be the reason people stay poor: when you don't have a lot of money, you need to make much more tough choices. This depletes people's willpower, and consequently they are worse at other important stuff like education. How to deal with decision fatigue? ‘People with the best self-control are the ones who structure their lives so as to conserve willpower. <…> Even the wisest people won’t make good choices when they’re not rested and their glucose is low. <…> The best decision makers are the ones who know when not to trust themselves.’ Very interesting article, actually. A lot of interesting stuff there. Is there no workaround to access nytimes from your area?

nazar 15y ago
Thanks! I can access it through proxy but internet speed is slow, so that would take n seconds, at least it will take more than the time u spent writing your post. So, thanks for effort, interesting stuff, especially for the guy like me who comes from biology to computer science.

pella 15y ago

"Extraneous factors in judicial decisions" http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/03/29/1018033108 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/03/29/1018033108 --- "The science of justice I think it's time we broke for lunch… Court rulings depend partly on when the judge last had a snack" http://www.economist.com/node/18557594 http://www.economist.com/node/18557594

nazar 15y ago
>The science of justice That reminds me of the youtube series about justice. There is one channel on youtube, they upload videos from Harvard lectures about justice and law system. That one was very interesting and insightful. Sometimes students would even cry while debating with professor. Sorry cant post a link, since Youtube is also blocked here. Maybe some of you guys can post the link, there might be ones who are interested. Anyways, thanks for the effort of getting the idea of the post!
- michael_scheibe 15y ago
  http://www.justiceharvard.org/ http://www.justiceharvard.org/ If you want to get a bit more out of the series, there are links to readings and discussion questions on the right of an episode page.