Hacker News with Generative AI: Isolation

Total Isolation: What Happens to Your Brain After 30 Days Spent Alone (2019) (inverse.com)
Imagine being confined to a small, dark room, with no social interaction whatsoever for 30 days. Not many people would jump at this opportunity. But, in November 2018, a professional US poker player, Rich Alati, bet $100,000 that he could survive 30 days alone and in total darkness.
Russian family lived alone in the Siberian wilderness for 40 years (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)
In 1978, Soviet geologists stumbled upon a family of five in the taiga. They had been cut off from almost all human contact since fleeing religious persecution in 1936