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AI memory palaces and superdidactic AI: 1. Summary

1. Summary

Part of the spectrum What's actually true Status
Memory palaces Large effects for ordered lists only; a richer room doesn't help Proven, wrong target
Project re-entry cues Own-words cues ~90% vs 5–17%; automated traces 2x notes; showing agent reasoning catches bad plans 81% vs 55% Strong pieces, never assembled; gap is real
AI tutoring 0.1–0.3 SD at scale, ~0.6 in a tight trial; 2 sigma was never real Real, modest
AI persuasion as mirror Information density drives it; personalization adds ~0.4 pp Teaching gets the dense part, not the retrieval
ML spaced repetition Neural schedulers beat FSRS on log loss; LLM cards need human-picked targets; varied cues beat fixed Scheduler solved, deck replacement promising
Sleep learning and TMR New learning in sleep is tiny and implicit; TMR g ≈ 0.13–0.29; slow-wave stimulation ≈ 0 Mostly no
Nudges and JITAIs Bias-corrected effects small and decaying; capture and specific cues matter more than timing Real, small
Neural UIs and BCI Pixel-rendered desktops can't hold state or text; BCIs reached ~mouse parity at ~10 bits/s Far
Uploads and "the soul" Emulation not close even for a worm; distilling a work policy has 50 years of precedent Policy yes, self no

The most promising build is a re-entry card on each decision-queue item (section 7, build 1). It's a weekend of work, and the queue's own history gives the baseline: in the motivating setup, asks answered live took minutes, while asks left in notes took 12–62 days. This report builds on a companion report on personal web-surfing models and an ought-driven tab feed, and doesn't repeat the companion reports on AI enfeeblement and idle supervisors, or on AI meditation and flow steering.


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