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rwallace comments on Leveling IRL - Less Wrong Discussion

33 Post author: cousin_it 05 August 2011 09:35PM

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Comment author: rwallace 08 August 2011 05:05:52AM 0 points [-]

Sounds reasonable. Might be worth further subdividing into working memory versus long-term memory since they would seem likely to be useful for different things?

Comment author: taryneast 08 August 2011 09:55:53AM *  0 points [-]

Ok, and have removed it again at a request from cousin_it, who says that it's not confirmed that n-back has any effect on actually improving short-term memory (except as applied to playing n-back). I am not qualified to continue that discussion - if you'd like to continue it... it's in one of cousin_it's comments on the page somewhere... feel free to take up the thread ;)

Comment author: taryneast 08 August 2011 09:27:38AM 0 points [-]

Have added them as "sub" goals of Memory as "long-term" and "short-term" memory. They don't need to be top-level skills, I think.