<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w wrote <span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">> I fully agree. But a lot of people seem to be so impatient to hook</span></div><span class="gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px">> themselves up to PCs and whatnot to improve their abilities, then get<br>> implants, etc. What for?<br><br></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"></div></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">adrian wrote<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"> </div></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"></div>To improve their abilities, presumably.</span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">N<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">ow if by improve you mean just more storage, I think that's wrong. That's why we have the internet and ways to reach any kind of answer we want in a very short time. Probably there will a gadget such that we can ask it for an answer and get it back in a few seconds - something wearable like an earbud.</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">What would improve would be an AI implant that catches our cognitive biases and other errors, does Bayesian calculations, and so on. We have plenty of storage. We don't have better ways of thinking. Right now all we can do is to try to change the brain we have, like your learning to learn course.</div></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">bill w</div></span></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 8:12 AM, William Flynn Wallace<br>
<<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> (out of all the hundreds of scifi books I've read I don't know how I missed<br>
> radiotelepathy)<br>
<br>
</span>It's a rare concept, and I am not certain "radiotelepathy" is in fact<br>
the dominant term for it. But I've seen it in multiple places.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> I fully agree. But a lot of people seem to be so impatient to hook<br>
> themselves up to PCs and whatnot to improve their abilities, then get<br>
> implants, etc. What for?<br>
<br>
</span>To improve their abilities, presumably.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> Intro courses are for learning basic terminology, facts, and theories. Some<br>
> rote memory testing is inevitable, but I say leave that behind as fast as<br>
> possible and get to the 'learning to learn' that you mentioned.<br>
<br>
</span>FWIW, <a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.coursera.org/<wbr>learn/learning-how-to-learn</a> is one form<br>
of what I'm talking about. Anyone generally capable of taking an<br>
online course (for instance, literate in the traditional and computer<br>
senses) can skip to this right away. (I double-checked the link, and<br>
there may be a paywall now, but when I took this course it was free.<br>
There might still be an option to take the course w/out the<br>
Certificate they're mentioning.)<br>
<br>
I would not mind hearing others' opinion of the course (as revised:<br>
it's been a while since I took it), if anyone wants to try.<br>
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