Re:Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall
by jacb on Monday August 08, 2022 @02:51PM
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Ha! Certainly none of us will get anywhere close to this bound, no matter how much time we log in Anki. But the OP asked "Would an infinitely-long-lived, but forgetful person be able to recall an infinite number of facts using this method?", and the answer is a surprising "no, you turn into a black hole".
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Re:Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall
by ben_w on Monday August 08, 2022 @03:12PM
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Sometimes even just one piece of knowledge can turn you into a black hole. It’s why nobody remembers every digit of Graham’s (phone) number.
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Re:Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall
by jquery on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @05:05PM
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his phone number is highly compressible though, it’s the decompression/serialization step that turns you into a black hole
Re:Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall
by jrussino on Monday August 08, 2022 @03:16PM
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I know we're all playing around here, but surely the answer must be that there's a limit rooted in the specific biological/chemical implementation of memory in the brain that our hypothetical "infinitely-long-lived, but forgetful person" would hit before the Bekenstein bound (probably long before) and therefore it's impossible to turn a brain into a black hole via that mechanism.