What are the criticisms of your work that you find most interesting?
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* Memory isn't a high-order bit for creative work, complex insight, etc.
* Explicit learning activities of any kind are a dead-end; we just need to figure out how to design implicit learning environments well.
* My work disregards the social experience.
* Where's the poetry?
I’m curious about your thoughts on the second one. What is the target audience for which that criticism applies? Does that cover your audience?
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Part of what’s very interesting about it is that I don’t know. There’s a substantial literature which suggests that implicit learning activities work well for “high-proficiency” learners, once essential prereq terms are known (and poorly otherwise). Not sure how malleable this is
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Yes, need more designing learning environments. Iteration, feedback, scaffolding. Let's do it.
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Implicit learning is something I want to dig deep into (is one of my long term research interests). Implicit learning is a hard problem. is an expert in this area 🙂
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You probably came across this already, but if not this is super interesting and related to memory:
join.substack.com/p/is-this-the-
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Wonderful summary! How do you respond or operate under this sort of criticism though? Do you see counterpoints for each arguement? Or is there a larger prevailing point you care about that overrides the other concerns?
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I find this kind of criticism quite generative, because it’s all clearly at least partially right! Thinking carefully about each helps me better understand the limits of my ideas, better understand the limits of those criticisms, and (ideally) improve both.
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#1 is the biggest reason I haven't adopted Anki or something similar yet.
Have any references you could send as counter-arguments for this criticism?
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It’s clearly not completely true: how could you possibly notice an unusual connection, say, unless you’ve already internalized the referents? So the more generative q is: what is the role of memory in various contexts?
More on the basics in this section: numinous.productions/ttft/#how-impo
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"memory isn't a high-order bit..." oooh... I'm memcpying that phrasing for later.
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