I have friends from elementary school who I routinely will try to find and ask them about stuff from third grade.

The vast majority of them have no idea who I am – I ran this experiment a few more times with people from middle school and high school, and then college.

I have determined that the average long-term memory for human being is 7 years.

After 7 years you basically get deleted from their memory and while you can prompt their long-term memory it’s a bit almost like memory implantation you’re giving them information about something which may or may not be true.

E.g: “Remember that hot air balloon ride we went on when we were six?”

“Haha, yeah I remember.”

“Really? Because that’s some bullshit I just made up there’s no hot air balloons in the city.”

That’s incredible, and a great way to do it!

Yeah; I’ve run similar tests and my working memory is exactly average, which is where my belief that the ability to store long term memories permanently is available to everyone.

For extra long memory validations, I’ve got photographs, and I also leave “memory checkpoints” in the real world, like landmarks in the slipstream of time, or physical objects in vaults that I can reference.

They’re important for the continuity of self, but also to have empirical anchors of “real” objects:

Yeah; it depends on the day. I’d say the recall is limited to my 140° of forward field of view, and really minor details get deleted, blurred or smeared.

I live in a major city, and pass literally, not figuratively thousands of people every day, so my memory is crammed full of ostensibly millions of people at this point. I don’t remember all of their outfits, but I can visualize a memory of say, riding on the subway, and remember almost every person and where they were sitting, and a rough approximation of what they were wearing.

A more unusual outfit would be more memorable, for instance, I had a friend who got a well-paying job, we met up at a convention, and he wore a purple shirt with a mosaic pattern on it. That was in 2015, but I can remember his exact appearance, haircut, the day of, and the shirt because of how unusual and uncommon purple Oxford/business shirts are.

I want to say my memory accuracy is around 88% on aggregate, with the highest quality memories being 96% accurate. Every time I touch a memory, I risk modifying it, so I whiteglove everything, and make sure to not overwrite any information. This is especially hard when reading childhood data because it was literally encoded by a consciousness that was still learning the English language, for ex.

In other words, what I’m trying to say is, my memory is reliable up until there is a lot of crowding. Extremely rich scenes or thousands of people together simultaneously makes it a lot harder, and while the recall is there, up to 10% of the data might be lost.

The brain flushes cerebrospinal fluid through itself during sleep, cleaning out spent fuel (beta, tau, amyloids and such). Buildup of amyloids in the brain is linked with Alzheimer’s disease. Anything the fluid touches activates neurons so the body has to be immobilized for the process otherwise you’ll flail around during the sleep process (See: Sleepwalking and night terrors). Memory consolidation and repair also occur in this stage. The optical clusters are so important for survival in evolution, they are never turned off, so dreams occur as the fluid hits neurons causing rapid eye movements (REM).

There was a BBC article/paper I read like a decade ago talking about the role/function of sleep in animals/organisms.

That first long morning piss? That’s all spent brain fuel.

If I got something wrong feel free to correct me, I’m going off years old information from the Interwebs__

TLDR: I agree with you

I have HSAM, highly superior autobiographical memory.

I am technically the thing the authors of the paper are trying to create; the human-alien hybrid.

One of the things I did most when I was a child was emphasize the importance of good sleep and dreaming.

As a result, I dream every night. Vividly. Lucidly. I also can remember essentially everything that has ever happened to me, or around me, like a video camera set to record on an infinite hard drive.

That being said, I don’t believe my brain is special. I don’t think this is a genetic quirk, or a fluke - a ghost in the programming.

I think everyone has the ability to form their brains into something like this, starting from early childhood, but simultaneously, I don’t think modern industrial civilization would survive this.

Humanity has a distinct advantage of knowing and being cognizant of its death at all times, and mercifully, forgets about this until their final years.

Giving everyone this ability would make society smarter, but I suspect they would respond to it by dulling their senses – self-medicating with marijuana and alcohol to cope with the gaping maw of wasting their fully lucid, fully hyperburning stardust on making some rich fuck richer.

I love humble flatbread pizza

Also, I only have EL runes. Acceptable?

Ghislane Maxwell shudders

That’s what makes philosophy interesting.

I am on my seventh Ship of Thesus, my D: contains /DOSGAMES/ and has a “folder created date” of August 1996.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s the same ship because I can load up my original SAVEGAMES, they still work, and they can kiss my ass. My ship has gone through the swamp man paradox and emerged the same on the other side. :>

Stop eating your cuticles, lol

Imagine you’re an astronaut for a national space agency on an exploration mission.

You are charting a usual star system named after an astronomer, Kepler.

Everything is normal but you detect trace gases of Nitrogen, Oxygen, Methane and Carbon Dioxide coming from the third planet orbitting the star.

News breaks about potentially organic compounds detected on an exoplanet and your space agency gives you authorization to approach and orbit for closer study.

When you get closer, you find an alarming sight – more than half of the planet, Kepler-3, has golden lights dotting the dark half of the planet.

Initially, it’s dismissed as natural atmospheric disturbances, but a few insightful individuals point out that they can see what look like geometric shapes, organized behavior of some kind.

It’s at this point, the close range scans indicate not just some “organic gases” but trillions of organisms , all of them alien, and worst of all, possessing a chirality opposite to your own.

Your immune system and their pathogens, and your pathogens, are wholly incompatible. You touch anything, you get sick and die, and they get sick and die.

No amount of medicine cures opposite handed chirals. So you do the smart thing, and turn around and leave.

Then, a few years later, an organism on their planet says:

“Lame. Bad event happened and not even any aliens”, being completely oblivious to the biological apocalypse their planet has been spared from.

I mean it’s possible it could’ve been an accident but the location was highly suspect, it would’ve caused damage to many different cars over an extended period of time

Who knows, Hanlon’s Razor might predominate here

Okay, I roll 1d20 and take 2 emotional damage

I use divine inspiration (Cleric: 1) from my patron: self to recover psyche points, your turn

So what if my words are what caused the wound, given it’s the exact shape?

Someone threw a bunch of spiked nails across a highway exit ramp. I caught one of them in my tire.

Some people are happy when others are miserable – I felt that was an excluded middle from the study’s conclusion.

Lmao Curse of Ra

Hilarious shit

It is, yes

Ah got it, thank you.

That’s a ridiculous contraption but ingenious for the time period, combining the mass and energy of multiple people to throw a single projectile.

How does this thing even work? It looks as though they’re using human bodies as the counterweight for the typical stone on a trebuchet.