Comments on: How to increase Learning / Knowledge bandwidth? (How much you can learn at once) https://wwhsnj.org/how-to-increase-learning-knowledge-bandwidth-how-much-you-can-learn-at-once/ Memory of the high school Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:26:53 +0000 hourly 1 By: Deckard_Macready https://wwhsnj.org/how-to-increase-learning-knowledge-bandwidth-how-much-you-can-learn-at-once/#comment-22 Wed, 03 Aug 2022 23:54:03 +0000 //wwhsnj.org/study/?p=23#comment-22 Your post says to imagine the situation well there’s already like four ways of doing it, it’s not that there aren’t ways is that it takes nearly superhuman levels of discipline.

You have to give up the majority or all of your social life to increase the amount of hours.

Then you need to have a rigorous attention to detail when somebody acts as their own mentor to can keep yourself on track to keep you from going down rabbit holes.

There’s two UK premed students who are studying for the I believe it’s the London imperial College of medicine, ones karma medic and the other is something but they go into multiple hours of YouTube video of their study method.

There’s the Cornell method for taking notes hell you can even use kanban and six sigma to craft study effort.

This balance you speak of is already a solved solution of exploration versus exploitation. Exploration is learning something new and exploitation is implementing it. You could easily dial this up to 18 to 20 hours a day of hard-core study time to do this for a few weeks but normally you’re looking at 15 to 18 hours a day of study for long-term semihard-core study

]]> By: peloquin https://wwhsnj.org/how-to-increase-learning-knowledge-bandwidth-how-much-you-can-learn-at-once/#comment-21 Wed, 03 Aug 2022 23:53:39 +0000 //wwhsnj.org/study/?p=23#comment-21 I will try to answer from a different than usual perspective. Let’s say there are different kinds of knowledge: the one that is more general and reusable, and the one that is specific. Information is a relative measure – if something is complex news but you know them then there is zero information to you.
The possessed knowledge is a combination of some general building blocks + extra really specific knowledge. The better general blocks you have, the less extra information you need to learn given some news (as any situation is encoded as a specific combo of general blocks).

So learning general models (like conservation laws, Bayesian models, temporal discounts, network-temporal relations/adaptations, systems/complexity science, etc.) should increase the capacity for learning information. In other words – interdisciplinary knowledge helps you understand things better.

E.g. this is why masters of chess are able to keep in working memory many games at once – they have these chess-general memory blocks ready.

However, the general models mentioned are more useful for building conscious/theoretical knowledge as more “performing” knowledge is hardly built in this way. It does not mean that all our skills are context specific. We still have some general models but they are hard to name. Thus understanding the hidden-from-consciousness parts more brings up rational influence.

I hope this makes sense as it is computation-compression inspired reasoning and not the one based on neuropsychology.

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