Mind · Memory
StrategicForgetting#c334
Retention needs a filter that discards what is no longer useful
Mechanism
A learning system that keeps everything accumulates noise. A periodic process, such as sleep, reviews recent experience, keeps what is useful, and discards or digests the rest. Community and generational transfer act as further filters, since only widely reused knowledge survives to the next holder.
Invariants
- Forgetting is selective, not uniform decay
- Filtering happens at more than one timescale
Failure modes
- Discarding rare but valuable knowledge
- Retaining harmful memories because nothing prunes them
Used by
Identity
The name is the hash of the definition. Change a word and it becomes a different pattern.
- Sema ID
sema:StrategicForgetting#mh:SHA-256:c3342dc2761d5e2ff5e88d80af91ae902cc1c6c3af984c6261570025114fd822- Reference
StrategicForgetting#c334- Ring
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- Tier
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