Lots of thoughts already on this page, hard to focus a discussion but I'll try to get to the essence.
The mnemonic medium tool is fantastic, it forces our brain to keep an idea current; we tend to naturally forget stuff if it isn't necessary to our survival. That the software "knows" when you're about to forget something seems to be what's novel here.
The tool is always paired to an individual though, so I bet this will have to be personalized down the line.
What do I need to be reminded of at time X?
As for the What... I feel like I can only learn one "neural diff" at a time. Which one totally depends on what I already know: some times I learn nothing, other times there's too much new information unrelated to anything I already know. Ideally the tool would know what I know, compress a whole essay, and "program" me with a story composed of something like the following operations:
a) add a new connection between concepts you previously thought unrelated
b) change a connection between two concepts, they are not related how you thought
c) insert a new concept
Of course the hard part is knowing what I already know, but I could tell you.
PS. This whole ordeal seems to be related to what good teachers and advertisers do: first get to know the audience, then tell a story with good rhythm and spacing.
PPS. The key to augmenting our thoughts with technology is trust. Our nature requires our brain to keep us alive. We can learn to externalize thought processes, yet if that externality can't be trusted, our instinct will be to unlearn our connection to it.
The mnemonic medium tool is fantastic, it forces our brain to keep an idea current; we tend to naturally forget stuff if it isn't necessary to our survival. That the software "knows" when you're about to forget something seems to be what's novel here.
The tool is always paired to an individual though, so I bet this will have to be personalized down the line.
What do I need to be reminded of at time X?
As for the What... I feel like I can only learn one "neural diff" at a time. Which one totally depends on what I already know: some times I learn nothing, other times there's too much new information unrelated to anything I already know. Ideally the tool would know what I know, compress a whole essay, and "program" me with a story composed of something like the following operations:
a) add a new connection between concepts you previously thought unrelated
b) change a connection between two concepts, they are not related how you thought
c) insert a new concept
Of course the hard part is knowing what I already know, but I could tell you.
PS. This whole ordeal seems to be related to what good teachers and advertisers do: first get to know the audience, then tell a story with good rhythm and spacing.
PPS. The key to augmenting our thoughts with technology is trust. Our nature requires our brain to keep us alive. We can learn to externalize thought processes, yet if that externality can't be trusted, our instinct will be to unlearn our connection to it.