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Cake day: November 10th, 2023

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  • Thats actually a perspective thst hadn’t clicked for me until just now, that even learning basic words in kindergarten classes and they have funny images of anthropomorphized letters or whatever else spanning across the room, that’s subtle but powerful memory techniques being ingrained in us.

    I think I understand the mechanics and intuition of how it works enough that I could apply the techniques easily enough if I wanted to but I otherwise don’t just go around spending time memorizing random mildly useful things for fun because I have other things I can do with my limited thinky power, I don’t really know how I got decent at this stuff in the first place but it just be how it be I guess, I don’t think I compare skill-wise to anyone that has actually practiced it more seriously but i can defenitely be very flexible with this stuff if I need to be.


  • Yeah speed reading and visualization, two massively useful underrated skills to improve that can save you loads of time if you do the right things.

    For visualization there is what are called memory palaces where you basically create a symbological image or story (series of images) that are so absurd that you just simply remember them in great detail, and you can use each detail to trace back to something else more important, that’s how you get people reciting hundred of didigrs of pi or whatever else, they have just created a system that encrypts digits of pi into a more rapidly accessible format that makes it feel like you are finding information rather than it bubbling up from the depth fo your mind.

    The trick there is that it feels slow and tedious and hard at first but the more practice and experience you have with encoding things, the more quickly you can just remember the most insane amount of shiz with little to no effort.











  • I forgot where I saw it initially but one time I saw a video explaining how math in schools is typically taught as grammar basically so thats why people tend to struggle in math classes because the teachers aren’t explaining mathematical/logical thinking, they are teaching the relationships of math symbols which is largely unimportant because the symbols can be defined any way you want as long as it is coherent.

    So this flipped my understanding of math and got me to realize I do definitely have mathematical thinking and use it quite often abstractly like in this case of the blog post so this was a perfect way to test it, I remember seeing something similar where a monolithic mathematical equation was used to describe some other psychology thing a long time ago and I wanted to try doing that too because it really does equalize the mysticism of everyday actions as long as the points can land.











  • For now, I think even if absolutely nothing changed with how they fundamentally worked from here on out and just kept throwing more money and data at them they could still actually automate some things away at some point, but they definitely will be also getting fundamentally better on top of this.


  • That is a good point, if partial economy is automated that leaves partial money available to handout as ubi.

    I had dismissed ubi because that is something that would only happen if there is enough pain on the consumers for them to give handouts, I guess this did happen when covid started up but that wasn’t seen as a similar function as ubi…which actually I read about some tests of ubi awhile back and they seemed to do what we think they do but the tests seem to make that not so obvious.