New essay on “Augmenting Long-term Memory”: http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
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True. But for some subjects you need to get to a pretty high level of understatto build context for association. So they're a nice shortcut. And once you have an image for a subject it can get reused to build connections in a way similar to normal learning
I’d really like to believe this is right. Unfortunately, the people who really develop these mnemonic skills don’t seem to use them this way. Rather, they end up memorizing lots of trivia. But maybe that’s just a selection effect (eg “digits of pi” is a memorable parlour trick).
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