On the benefits of over-long books.pic.twitter.com/r49KDsyWst
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Are books for memorising things? Aren't they already far better at that than their readers? Each (good) book has a purpose that isn't memorisation, and for each purpose there is a right length.
I agree. But it’s a false dichotomy to suppose that memory and understanding are completely different things. In many cases they’re closely related.
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A striking instance of this is de Groot and Simon’s work, where they estimated that expert chess players typically have internalized 25,000-100,000 different types of piece configuration. This lets them understand the board in ways completely inaccessible to beginners.
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OK good point. Still, I don't think that's the generic case. And even with chess, you get to recognise configurations if you love analysing games.
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