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Learn everything yourself is such an insanely reductionist strategy. Through a limited dalliance with spaced repetition learning techniques, I came to believe r

Learn everything yourself is such an insanely reductionist strategy. Through a limited dalliance with spaced repetition learning techniques, I came to believe research that suggests there a limit to how many discrete facts you can retain in your memory. Unfortunately the number of facts you’d need to retain to be an expert in hold to maturity securities, vaccines, the military capabilities of Ukraine, the intricacies of section 230, and Delaware corporate law and how it relates to broken acquisitions (just to name five examples of things that most people on this site think they know a lot about) would exhaust the most capable mind’s capacity.

LoganDark 4y ago
> there a limit to how many discrete facts you can retain in your memory Yep. Once you've tried to train yourself on too much data, your brain begins to hallucinate facts (more) similarly to an LLM. You'll be able to reject (most of?) these hallucinations, but you won't really have all the facts anymore. I've tried to do this before and it doesn't end up with you being an expert in anything. It just ends up with you either being confused, or being confidently wrong. I hallucinate facts all the time.