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People decide what they want to memorize. If people want to spend memory on goofy things, that's up then I guess. I barely know the streets I take to my office
by talldatethrow 3y ago
People decide what they want to memorize. If people want to spend memory on goofy things, that's up then I guess.
I barely know the streets I take to my office, 6 months in (and I'm not just talking about their actual names). I use nav every time. My father thought I was losing my mind.
But at the same time I can remember basically every small block of code in a large saas I single handedly built a few years ago, even today.
- balder1991 3y agoI guess the case of remembering old things, likely because you have some sort of emotion associated with it, is not the same as working memory.
- coldtea 3y ago>People decide what they want to memorize. Not exactly the case when you have ADHD.
- bmoxb 3y agoI wouldn't say it's true in general. You can certainly choose what to put active effort into learning/revising, but memorisation isn't really something we have direct, conscious control over.
- anthk 3y agoYou might love Gemini and Gopher networks then. Try Lagrange either on PC, Win, Linux, Mac or Android and head to gemini://gemi.dev and gopher://magical.fish, the news section. No bullshit content, no doomscrolling, no ads, no notifications.
- dktnj 3y ago> But at the same time I can remember basically every small block of code in a large saas I single handedly built a few years ago, even today. Trying to replace that with something useful here at the moment. Much more difficult than it looks.
- Llamamoe 3y ago> People decide what they want to memorize. Advertising wouldn't exist if we actually had control over what we pay attention to and memorize.
- isaacremuant 3y agoIt's relatively easy to dismiss advertisement provided you don't get bombarded with them frequently, at which point, it's simply learning via spaced repetition. I get your point that a lot of knowledge acquisition that goes into short and long term memory has more to do with the environment (passive learning) and less to do with intentional learning. Blocking the input entirely will always work (using headphones, not reading certain things).
- feoren 3y agoWhich is why I go out of my way to avoid advertisements as much as possible.
- talldatethrow 3y agoI don't really agree. There are countless ads I have zero recollection of because I don't care in the slightest. I'm a guy, and I remember Playtex commercials for women, because it is interesting in a way what women deal with IMO. Now, you can argue that advertising works to make me interested in something enough to choose to care, but that's different.
- adave 3y ago[dead]