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Anonymous Sun 31 Jan 20:41:38 2021 No.12650099 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12650137 >>12651796 >>12651884 >>12651973 >>12652129 >>12652138 >>12652473

How do we deal with knowledge obesity?

>Knowledge is not power if we’re not applying it
>It actually is just weighing us down. There is a tipping point in having too much information and it’s unrealistic to think we can consume it all.

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Anonymous Sun 31 Jan 2021 20:54:52 No.12650130 Report

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>tfw intellectual heavy-weight

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Anonymous Sun 31 Jan 2021 20:57:21 No.12650137 Report

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>>12650099

Information is not knowledge.

Information is data, while knowledge is a graph connecting various pieces of data together.

More information could in fact result in the degradation of knowledge, as more energy must be expended to filter out useless data.

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Anonymous Sun 31 Jan 2021 21:00:44 No.12650147 Report

Quoted By: >>12650159 >>12651875 >>12652249 >>12652314

>read more than thousand non novel books (including textbooks)
>can't recall a single one unless something from it is specifically mentioned
>same thing with memories, lectures and pretty much everything
anyone else like this?

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Anonymous Sun 31 Jan 2021 21:04:04 No.12650159 Report

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>>12650147

Just because the food you eat doesn't stay with you, doesn't mean it's not changing you.

>can't recall a single one unless something from it is specifically mentioned

That's the point. What would be the use of knowledge if it doesn't arise during the right conditions? To flex on others with your memory capabilities?

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Anonymous Sun 31 Jan 2021 21:47:55 No.12650327 Report

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>>12650130
>Physical obesity correlated with Physical wealth
>Intellectual obesity correlated with Intellectual Wealth
How long until spiritual obesity is correlated with Spiritual Wealth?

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Anonymous Mon 01 Feb 2021 08:04:48 No.12651796 Report

Quoted By: >>12651969 >>12652252

>>12650099
No this is salt piisoning. It makes you unable to create a coherent view of the world, so your mind becomes a useless dump of disconnected trivia.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Feb 2021 09:13:30 No.12651875 Report

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>>12650147
If you are capable of remembering everything from every book you're read you're probably autistic. Not being able to remember most of the stuff you take in is normal. What's important is how easily you can find this information later when you need it, and how you can apply it to other situations besides the one you learned it from.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Feb 2021 09:17:29 No.12651884 Report

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>>12650099
OP is a retard. The original article talks about sources of information specifically in a workplace setting https://www.hcamag.com/au/specialisation/mental-health/struggling-with-knowledge-obesity-youre-not-alone/241290

As for the general knowledge setting, there is functionally no limit to how much you can learn. You might forget stuff you don't use, but that's hardly "obesity". More importantly, knowing trivia doesn't hamper your ability to form a coherent thought about a topic you know deeply. There is something to be said about the recent trend where most people only have a surface knowledge of everything, but OP's way of framing this topic is stupid

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Anonymous Mon 01 Feb 2021 10:09:19 No.12651969 Report

Quoted By: >>12652226 >>12652276

>>12651796
>salt poisoning
Source on this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Feb 2021 10:12:10 No.12651973 Report

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>>12650099
>Knowledge obesity
Sounds like a new take on Information Overload, which is decades old concept.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Feb 2021 11:44:01 No.12652129 Report

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>>12650099
I avoided this fate by developing a practical engineered machine. I actually applied my mind to something real while my "friends" learn languages on duolingo

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Anonymous Mon 01 Feb 2021 11:48:27 No.12652138 Report

Quoted By: >>12652242

>>12650099
>>It actually is just weighing us down
citation needed

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Anonymous Mon 01 Feb 2021 12:55:39 No.12652226 Report

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>>12651969
>expecting a source on /sci/
Welcome, newfriend.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Feb 2021 13:01:37 No.12652242 Report

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>>12652138
ur just fat

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Anonymous Mon 01 Feb 2021 13:04:59 No.12652249 Report

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>>12650147
This is me. I have an awful memory, I feel like most of what I learn is a waste of time because if I ever need it, I'll simply need to re-learn it. Anki is the only way I've found around this, but to do it right takes time, so I limit it to mostly need-to-know stuff.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Feb 2021 13:07:05 No.12652252 Report

Quoted By: >>12652276 >>12652509

>>12651796
This is true. I cut out the salt, allowing the fat in my brain to turn brown and giving me near perfect recall of my entire life.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 01 Feb 2021 13:21:44 No.12652276 Report

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>>12651969
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5656827/
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/high-salt-diet-triggers-changes-mouse-brains
>>12652252
You unironically might be right, if you grew up without it.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Feb 2021 13:37:10 No.12652314 Report

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>>12650147
I spend more time reading than any other hobby, if you're reading for enjoyment it doesn't matter if you remember it so long as you enjoyed the experience of reading it, if you're reading to learn take notes digitally so it's easily searchable

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Anonymous Mon 01 Feb 2021 14:40:22 No.12652473 Report

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>>12650099
My knowledge is healthy at every size. Stop being eruditephobic.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Feb 2021 14:58:12 No.12652509 Report

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>>12652252
In fact you can see that "primitive" people that didn't eat salt spoke extremely complicated languages. It is possible that languages started decaying after the people were taught to use salt, as the ability to systemize was lost, and the people couldn't learn the languages for real, but only as a mess of vocabulary and set phrases, like modern languages.

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