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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 fo
by jacb 4y ago
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".
- ben_w 4y agoSometimes 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. ;)
- jquery 4y agohis phone number is highly compressible though, it’s the decompression/serialization step that turns you into a black hole
- jrussino 4y agoI 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.