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by infecto 769 days ago
I don’t believe co2 is as statistically significant of a problem as you are making it out to be. I believe some of the originally literature around this really made it overblown.
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There's good evidence to think complex cognitive tasks (like strategizing, coding...) suffer with CO2 > 1000 ppm

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036013232...

I do believe the science is out in areas like the described, it could very well impact high cognitive tasks and can easily imagine that being true. I still don't believe it is suffocating the brain like described by the poster.
It really does feel like this is the current worry in the tech sphere, and somewhat unnecessarily