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On a different note, the new Matrix really failed to captivate and imagine like the old movie series did.
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It's called "studying", which implies a form of "spaced repetition", but makes notions meaningful and "alive" by making them integrated in your "body of knowledge". To do differently - to just keep notions in a mental closet -, would be like memorizing a book: you have not read it. "Reading" - digesting information - and "memorizing" are not the same. To "study" you will have to use some sort of (often natural, impli…
With the exception of word lists for foreign language study (and to be honest, vocabulary is rarely my most important issue with foreign languages), I haven't found anything that benefits from studying flashcards. I know that flashcards were a big thing among students when I was in grade school and college (decades ago). I'm sure they helped students memorize pieces of information, but I'm not sure they helped studen…
This reminded me of Sleep Learning. This topic has the oddest Wikipedia page [0]. You would expect this topic to have research, historical background and other sections. But 80% of that page is just references to fictional literature. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep-learning
Slightly more useful might be lucid dreaming. I can imagine that a stable lucid dream would be great for knowledge synthesis.
We have a high bandwidth input already known as eyes and ears
They deal with pretty noisy mediums though. How much of the input is actually transformed into what we perceive as relevant knowledge and stored long-term?
Nothing worse than a system not sufficient trained to deal with high noise environments
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With the exception of word lists for foreign language study (and to be honest, vocabulary is rarely my most important issue with foreign languages), I haven't found anything that benefits from studying flashcards. I know that flashcards were a big thing among students when I was in grade school and college (decades ago). I'm sure they helped students memorize pieces of information, but I'm not sure they helped studen…
mostly in schools there's no understanding whatsoever: to the contrary, students have to REMEMBER what the teacher provided as a valid understanding.
Not a word about the security implications? The easiest reply would be "They are called books", or whatever container and format for information - and already there issues and risks are more than just possible, mitigated by filters one is trained to develop. The more acquisition of information takes the aspect of an "injection", a whole world of issues open. From "I read War and Peace in one hour: it was about Russia…
I would think security wise it would be like medication. Everything from highly trusted,tested and expensive sources to the free for all of the black market. I would suspect you are right though that the idea of a knowledge injection is absurd. If an athlete takes steroids they are injecting strength in one sense but not like a movie that they take the injection and are superman 5 minutes later. Surely, there are bio…