With the primitive spaced repetition systems we currently have, it’s sometimes necessary to sacrifice spaced repetition for massive input. I want to bridge the gap here.
I think this can be broken down to two major components.
- Find better ways to search and gather information
- Find better ways to integrate massive
Leading Figures
Linus Lee is doing a lot of great work on #1 (https://thesephist.com/posts/monocle/, https://thesephist.com/posts/browser/, https://thesephist.com/posts/search-vs-nav/, https://thesephist.com/posts/nav/), and Andy Matuschak is one of the leading figures on #2 (https://andymatuschak.org/books, https://andymatuschak.org/prompts, https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z244xx3kMf1v8UnkZKUwQBAwBsHLpUgN4YhsG).
My Thoughts
- I think there’s a lot of important work to be done in terms of summarizers like this and building off of all of the already linked work that Linus is doing around search. Investigating search of the future is important, especially because it feels like there hasn’t been enough motivation to push search until ChatGPT re-plasticised the entire tech industry.
- Building a better memory system, AI as a memory system, Why Books Don’t Work