Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Cognitive Bias Mnemonics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 05 April 2015 12:06:50PM 6 points [-]

Tangential: I like the idea of having mnemonics for biases but that they can't be shared bugs me. I mean they could by publishing 'standard' mnemoncs but then they don't naturally fit in anybodys memory palace - at least not without additional mnemonic work.

So the idea is: Couldn't we have 'standardized memory palaces'? At least a few rooms which everybody shares. Kind of like a standard floorplan where everybody knows that the entrance (zero) with the stone floor (appeal to the stone) leads into the kitchen (1) with the sun-bathed flowers (halo effect) - or whatever. A memory palace everybody learns in kindergarten could be a great aid for communication and learning for everybody.

What do you think?

Comment author: Terdragon 05 April 2015 06:11:20PM *  2 points [-]

Woah, I like this idea.

I made a memory palace once; it contains a grand entrance hall, and within that entrance hall is a filing cabinet, and within that filling cabinet is a piece of paper with pictures about what I did on the day I made the memory palace. It's got remarkable fidelity, but it's useless unless I put something in it other than, well, that filing cabinet.

What would be a good way for us, as a group, to start creating a standardized memory palace? It would be cool to do this collaboratively somehow.

Comment author: TheOverseer 06 April 2015 10:39:20PM 2 points [-]

Hmm, this project might be of interest http://cci.mit.edu/deliberatoriumresearchpage.html Wad'ya think of it?

Comment author: Terdragon 08 April 2015 04:44:10AM 1 point [-]

Huh, the screenshot reminds me of this thing that /r/hpmor ended up developing.