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

46 Post author: divia 25 June 2010 01:08AM

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Comment author: humpolec 25 June 2010 07:06:47AM 5 points [-]

I'm happy to see something about Anki here, but how are Sequences supposed to be SRS-able in any way? "Learning" them involves understanding, not memorization of text / facts.

Or is that the joke ("mysterious answers") and I failed to see it?

Comment author: divia 26 June 2010 05:46:06AM *  5 points [-]

I think your concern is a valid one, but that there's also a solution. I think reviewing the sequences with the mindset of trying to guess a password would merely reinforce the misguided idea of verbal behavior having inherent truth value. And that's why I wouldn't even really use the word "memorization" to describe what I'm doing.

I think the way to "learn" the sequences is to practice applying the concepts all the time, which is more easily accomplished if you're primed to have them pop into your mind at the right moment. And my experience has been that SRS has helped enable that for me.