Learning compression score = Quality / Size reduction

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SUPERINTELLIGENCE

2. Enhance Your Learning by Calculating
The Learning Compression Score
A (futuristic) method of assessing a source’s learning e ciency
Lorenz Duremdes, Polymath
Dec 25 · 3 min read
Learning compression score = Quality / Size
reduction
Calculating Learning Compression Score
his method, which I will call “Learning compression score”, is a
(futuristic) method that I can imagine will accelerate learning.
Essentially, this “score” says how efficiently you learn things from a
particular source in terms of time e.g. two similar articles may talk about
the same idea, but one of them explains it in half the time required to read
it.
So how can we “calculate” the compression score of a source? Let’s say you
are aware of a book containing 70,000 words but, instead, there’s an article
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3. summarizing the book in only 1,000 words. In other words, the source has
been compressed by ~99%. This, however, is just a component for
calculating the learning compression score.
In order to calculate the compression score, we have to “calculate” how
much (subjective) “quality” we have retained from the original source.
Often, the quality goes down when summarizing sources, but in rare cases,
it might even go up.
Let’s say we have retained 80% of the “quality”. Now, in order to calculate
the compression score, we have to divide 0.8 with 0.01 = 80.
This number essentially means that every second you spend on reading the
summary, you learn things 80x faster than when reading the original
source.
Futuristic MethodTo Enhance Learning?
think we can become more and more precise and efficient in calculating
things like how much calories, proteins, and vitamins certain food
contains. In fact, we might even be able to do such things in the future via
brain augmentation by simply staring at food.
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4. Perhaps it might even be possible to calculate more precisely how valuable
and efficient a certain source would be to read for us. I mean, we already
are doing that (subconsciously) based on our feelings of curiosity, joy, and
so on.
What do you think of this concept?
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