Is there any good example of a field where the knowledge isn't kept quite so "linear read a book then other then integrate" types but have different modalities? eg hyperlinked concept graphs, interactive learning sims, large datasets of time/place/action, etc.
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Marine fire squad tactics are stored in a library of ‘tactical decision making games’. There are lectures, but the games are an important way the knowledge gets transferred.
Modern competition judo consists of 70% gripping/setups for throws. These don’t exist in any book.
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Hmm interesting. It feels the counter to exists in books *is* tacit learning, without much other methods in the middle of knowledge capture. The games are a great point, and the design of those games must be interesting.
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Well, if you’re interested, I wrote up some of those techniques here: commoncog.com/blog/accelerat
But the more I dig, the more I realise there’s a lot of tacit, or at least unwritten knowledge in the design of these simulations.
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To be clear, there’s a lot of knowledge that isn’t written down simply because it’s too much work to write a book (+ the knowledge evolves rapidly). But it’s explicit in the sense that it’s easily transmissible. Cutting edge cryptoeconomics or cutting edge ML seems like this.
In which case the learning modality is “embed yourself in the right expertise networks”
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Very true. And thanks for the article, will read! I did write about tacit knowledge first here strangeloopcanon.com/p/two-stories- - and then struck by the question of why there aren't other knowledge capture methods! Our explicit knowledge transfer methods also seem fairly one track.
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