People who are responding to my last few tweets with "you can google facts, not remember phone numbers" -- that's just half the equation
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Don't forget that new need-to-remember facts might be entering faster than tech takes them out. I think this is in fact the case.
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In fact, one reason for inequality, people struggling to adapt to new economy is lost situation awareness due to net inflow of arbit facts
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I disagree. Tech pressures are selecting for people who are good at maintaining bigger, more complex, faster changing maps in head
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Haha, I think lion taming and fighter piloting are kinda similar ballpark compared to cat training or car driving.
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That's precisely what I am saying. What you're calling "learn fast" is in fact ability to rapidly dev sit. awareness.
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I learn conceptually extremely fast, but not the hands on stuff. It may not look like arbit facts, but in the back-end, it is.
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Consider half life of facts: understanding Turing completeness: eternal. Having informed opinion on which js framework to use=2 yrs
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The average half-life of facts you need to assemble into your mental models is getting loaded on fast-expiry facts side of distro.
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Of course they did. On a monotonic curve, every period feels unprecedented, and in fact it is.
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You're adding your value judgments in there :). I just think of half-lives and freq resp you need for a given situation.
