humpolec comments on Spaced Repetition Database for the Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions Sequence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: humpolec 25 June 2010 07:09:36AM *  3 points [-]

SRS software is very efficient, but still makes you think how terribly inefficient the brain is at remembering things. Wouldn't it be better to just read a word list once, decide "this is important" and just remember it, instead of spending half an hour every day to make the words stick?

Comment author: nerzhin 25 June 2010 03:59:27PM 10 points [-]

decide "this is important" and just remember it

Maybe we aren't very good at deciding what's important. For our brains, important memories are memories that are accessed often. How else would you decide?