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Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Extra thinking time cannothelp with factual recall: amodel that does not know a… NB Noam Brown — holds since 2026-06-26 Knowing something yourself will stay faster than asking a model for it, because a lookup in your own head beats a round trip to an agent. Knowing somethingyourself will stay… PC Patrick Collison — holds since 2026-07-31 A model that solves a hard problem has learned nothing from it: the next session has forgotten it, with no new skill to carry to related problems. A model that solves ahard problem has… TT Terence Tao — holds since 2026-03-20 Seeing something many times does not put it into memory: familiarity with a thing and knowledge of it are different, and people confuse the two constantly. Seeing something manytimes does not put it… AC Alan Castel — holds since 2026-07-13 Spaced recall works by stripping a memory of the time and place it happened, which is why the memories you revisit most feel like facts you read rather than things you lived. Spaced recall works bystripping a memory of… CR Charan Ranganath — holds since 2024-05-25 Five hours a week with grandchildren goes with better memory in older adults, and more than twenty hours a week does not. Five hours a week withgrandchildren goes with… AC Alan Castel — holds since 2026-07-13 Forgetting is a feature of a working memory system rather than a failure of it. Forgetting is a featureof a working memory… AC Alan Castel — holds since 2026-07-13 In a monotonous stretch of life the days crawl and the weeks vanish, because the sense of how much time passed is built out of what you can remember happening. In a monotonous stretchof life the days crawl… CR Charan Ranganath — holds since 2024-05-25 Language models cannot be a prior for learning from experience, because a prior needs a ground truth to be a prior about and they have none. Language models cannotbe a prior for learning… RS Richard Sutton — holds since 2025-09-26
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