You’re left with only enough knowledge capital to find and rent it again. Like knowing the address of apartments you’ve rented before. I don’t know much but I’ve rented a lot of stuff over the years. My address book is nearly full.
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Your knowledge degradations form a unique fingerprint that create a signature style of how how you do new things. Like the gold seams on a kintsugi bowl uniquely identify its past of cracks and breaks. It still holds stuff, but in a unique way. Your brain is a kintsugi bowl.
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Writing is a good example. Everybody retains/loses particular preferred/not-preferred words/idioms/usages that form a particular unique “voice” ... one that could be identified by an AI classifier and reproduced by gpt-2 type algorithms.
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Feels like Homo sapiens is ready to evolve past uncritical fetishization of knowing for the sake of knowing (Homo... studentus?) to actual “sapiens” ("discerning, wise, sensible") by treating knowing as a commodity rent/buy decision for the most part.
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There is certainly a kind of pleasure to learning and acquiring knowledge, whether to rent or own. But uncritically maximizing that pleasure is a kind of hedonism. We just don’t notice because society approves of it morally, and rewards it economically.
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Erudition: What you know Wisdom: What you know about what you know Humbletalebry: What you don’t know Prowess: What you can do Nihilism: What you must do Scholarship: What you know about who knows what Craft: What you’ve forgotten Artistry: What has irreversibly degraded
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Religion: What you refuse to know Tribalism: What you refuse to do Bureaucratism: What others must know Imperialism: What others must be able to do
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fwiw - went three decades between riding a bike - it was unusual, but fine (p.s. bike-nut-friend just broke their arm, sigh)
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I recently read a transcript of Richard Hammings' talk on doing research, where he says that knowledge compounds. I think he is right, but I also agree with 'use it or lose it'. I guess they're not mutually exclusive, so long as new knowledge builds on old knowledge.
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Yeah, I forget the details, but things you learn during the ages 8-13 stick with you. Like learning how to ride a bike. Or in my case algebra and basketball. iirc same ages where language acquisition is easiest.
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