[Lammy]

IMO nostalgia is like the DRAM refresh for my own memory. I think nostalgia feels good to incentivize me to do it, like how sex feels good to incentivize the perpetuation of humanity as a whole. I suspect that when I “remember something” I’m actually remembering the last time I remembered it, not directly remembering the original event. Some day I would like to try building a filesystem like that where storage and access are the same operation.

Source: drugs

[lcnPylGDnU4H9OF]

> when I “remember something” I’m actually remembering the last time I remembered it

I remember reading the title of a TIL (Today I Learned) post on Reddit roughly a decade ago[0] that was worded almost verbatim like this. Just a note that this suspicion seems to be grounded in reality, assuming the veracity of that claim. As an additional data point, since being introduced to that idea I've been anecdotally "confirming" it (with the usual potential for bias) through observation of my own recollections.

[0] The absolute pinnacle of journalistic integrity. No salt grains needed. /s

[smegsicle]

at some point there were rumors of a psychological study where some chemical that somehow disallowed making new memories also seemed to erase previous memories that were consciously recalled