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This probably has some useful stuff in it, but...IMMOBILIZED? Seriously? What I can see just reading the quote is setting off my mental alarm for "you had a good idea, but you tried to apply it to an extant for in an arena in which you're hitting really bad diminishing returns, so stop it right now, determine how far you can take it without it making you expend an inefficient amount of effort, and go from there."
Why do I have a mental alarm for this kind of thing? Because I do it all the time.
I wasn't sure if he meant you will be immobilized if you want to stick to your commitment or be immobilized out of some sort of neurosis.
I parsed it as 'you won't be able to update.'
You interpreted "immobilize" as "inability to perform a Bayesian update"? I think that is unlikely given that he says "you will be incapable of going somewhere without your cache of notes" which seems to clearly imply a much more (though not completely) literal, physical meaning of immobilization.
There's also the bit that says
If you'll excuse the rhetoric: Wow... I don't even know what to say.
Maybe I just interpreted that as the worst part of it, and somewhat of a metaphor for having significant barriers to reorganizing or modifying your brain's contents.