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There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy

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  1. ShadowOfThePit · · focus · HN ↗
    Interesting factoid:

    > Over and over again, studies[0] find that people think that their past conversations went worse than they actually did and that future conversations will go worse than they actually do. But when you just make people talk to each other, they end up having a nice time and feeling more confident[1] about their conversational abilities.

    [0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tandfonline.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;10.1080&#x2F;15298868.2020.1816568" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tandfonline.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;10.1080&#x2F;15298868.2020.18...

    [1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0022103122000750" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S002210312...

    1. Razengan · · focus · HN ↗
      I think it&#x27;s a side-effect of certain facets of intelligence, mistrained or unrestrained:

      Repeatedly processing memory, recursively calling the same function without a limit or exit condition :)

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