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Comment author: [deleted] 20 January 2011 09:11:14PM 1 point [-]

Being precise has large consequences for brains that run largely on single step insights from cached knowledge.

To take advantage of this one might want to compress cached knowledge as much as possible; the resulting single step insights would then have correspondingly greater generality. Using structured personal knowledge databases along with spaced repetition would be one way of accomplishing this.