Comment by tovej
8 hours ago
1) That's not infinite, just vast
2) Hyperthymesia is about remembering specific events in your past, not about retaining conceptual knowledge.
8 hours ago
1) That's not infinite, just vast
2) Hyperthymesia is about remembering specific events in your past, not about retaining conceptual knowledge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kUQWuK1L4w
APL inventor says that he was developing not a programming language, but notation to express as much problems as one can. He found that expressing more and more problems with the notation first made notation grow, then notation size started to shrink.
To develop conceptual knowledge (when one's "notation" starts to shrink) one has to have some good memory (re-expressing more and more problems).
The point is that this particular type of exceptional memory has nothing to do with conceptual knowledge, it's all about experiences. This particular condition also makes you focus on your own past to an excessive amount, which would distract you from learning new technologies.
You can't model systems in your mind using past experiences, at least not reliably and repeatedly.