Matt Teichman
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11,523 appearances
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first heard Jul 2009
last heard 21 Jul
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Whatever answer you wrote down to a question when you were just learning something might not even be as...
accurate as could be maybe your future expertise would be useful in redoing those reference answers
subject.
You know, this sort of gets to another question I've been having about this, which is we've been talking, I think, about like active recall.
I think you use that phrase where you're explicitly asked a question and then you sit there and make your head hurt trying to remember the answer for it.
But I found often that for certain kinds of skills, it's really helpful to have this kind of like a subconscious recall.
One example here that I would give would be speaking a foreign language.
you're never going to have a conversation in a foreign language by sitting there and trying to explicitly remember the word for this and the word for that.
It's much more of a kind of thing where your reptile brain is going to just, you know, make you remember whatever you need to say, the thing you need to say.
So I guess it's another question I have about this technique is, does it seem to have equal impact on the times when you decide you're going to actively try to remember something and the times when something comes out of your mouth and you don't remember why exactly?
by talking about history, I thought, which was kind of a little bit surprising to me example.
some books in like specifically written in order for you to apply this method, right?
Like the quantum computing book and so forth.
Do you ever find yourself wishing that you could forget something?
So, like, I don't know.
I think, you know, the main reason we're able to I think Nietzsche has a version of this argument.
The main reason we're able to, like, have friends is because we don't remember every single fight we've had with our friend in gory detail.
And that there's a certain uses that your memory being like a sieve can have for you.
I wonder if you've ever run across techniques to help with forgetting it.
Or is that it's just a ridiculous idea that's not worth pursuing?
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