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I think I would get lost, but only due to the vocabulary and translation load and the "once" restrictions - not due to the content of the article itself. In pr
by aappleby 4y ago
I think I would get lost, but only due to the vocabulary and translation load and the "once" restrictions - not due to the content of the article itself.
In practice I end up reading the same wiki articles dozens of times as I go up and down the link trees, with each pass connecting various ambiguous ideas together.
If I could annotate the pages with arbitrary amounts of translation notes as I read them, I could probably get through the article though it would take a very long time.
- p-christ 4y agoOk but the point stands that there is a limit to your working memory. Your limit sounds a lot higher than most peoples but it is still limited otherwise you’d never get lost even if you could only read things once.
- aappleby 4y agoI don't _feel_ like my working memory is particularly large, but that's also a hopelessly subjective assessment. Maybe it's more like my working memory can hold more things by aggressively discarding details until I need them - same capacity, but with better lossy compression. Not sure if I could measure that either, but it feels closer.