i just remembered that it might be relevant that i have a non-24-hour sleep/wake cylce[1]. maybe i tend to expect it to be dark. also, if a human in an ancestral environment needed to be awake at night for some reason, it wouldn’t really make sense for their cognition to be worse just because it’s dark—maybe instead better/worse on different dimensions.
i just remembered that it might be relevant that i have a non-24-hour sleep/wake cylce[1]. maybe i tend to expect it to be dark. also, if a human in an ancestral environment needed to be awake at night for some reason, it wouldn’t really make sense for their cognition to be worse just because it’s dark—maybe instead better/worse on different dimensions.
another source: section 3 on ‘circadian rhythm disorders’ in this scott alexander post