u/Mozzard

Hi everyone,

I'm 24 years old and I recently took the initial TSR memory test from Ramón Campayo's course before learning any of the techniques.

Here are my results:

• Reading speed (V): 165 words/minute
• Memorization speed (Vm): 11 words/minute
• Time: 573 seconds
• Score: 6/20 correct answers (30%)

According to the book, a memorization speed below 25% of your reading speed suggests serious concentration or memory issues, which surprised me.

What confuses me is that I'm a software engineer/computer science background, and I've generally done well in technically demanding subjects. I don't feel like I have major concentration problems in my day-to-day life. I can spend hours programming, debugging, or learning new technologies without much difficulty.

So I'm wondering:

• Are these kinds of baseline scores actually common before learning the techniques?
• Did anyone else start with similarly low results and improve significantly?
• Or should I genuinely be concerned about such a low memorization score?

I'm planning to follow the course for a few weeks and retake the test, but I'd really like to hear about other people's experiences with the initial assessment.

Thanks!

What if we eventually had enough computational power to process the entire Library of Babel?

Not just generate or search pages, but actually analyze the complete space of possibilities.

Imagine giving such a machine a goal instead of asking it a question. For example:

• Find the best cure for a disease.
• Design the most efficient spacecraft.
• Maximize human well-being under a given set of constraints.
• Solve an unsolved mathematical problem.

Rather than reasoning the way we do, it would effectively contemplate every possible solution that exists in the library and select the one that best satisfies the objective.

The interesting part is that intelligence might become less about inventing answers and more about navigating and validating an already complete space of possibilities.

Would such a system qualify as intelligence, or would it simply be the ultimate search algorithm? Would it be fundamentally different from an AGI, or just another path to the same destination?

Hello

I only want to express here my situation, and know if I am alone in this world having this issue:

- I am working in 2 projects:

1. Good project with good people who are very very smart and work very politely, we are very productive, I even feel silly when I work with them because the most of the time they take smart decisions. However, as usual they have a retard attitude of laughing at stupid things, then they forget things, then we don't meet deadlines. Well, no one is perfect....

2. All my colleagues are retard and beyond. I have 2 project managers: one is always complaining that everything is a disaster, and never motivates me, the rest of colleagues are retard as him and just comply of everyone except from themselves. The other project manager is the double of retard, and he only says that we need to move so our client see us moving. Nothing else, nothing specific, no goal setting, nothing. If something fails it is my absolute fault.

This job requires contacting other departments, who forgot how to read, so I have to send an email weekly (because sending an email daily is too much for them), and if I am lucky they send a vague answer telling that maybe next month they will do something.

Remember that the fault is always mine as per my PMs....

But then I see other emails where I am in CC and people send emails and answer the same day. So why do I have to be constantly hostigated and ignored?

Am I the only one in this world that seems himself in a corner doing nothing because it feels useless?

Should my PMs take any responsability of this as leaders? I have been involved in more complex projects with more work and have been more productive, and less ignored and answered everything as if I had to know it everything (from their documentation that is obsolete, incomplete, and in some cases it just lies, it documents we use products that we have never activated)

BUT I use their infrastructure as test environment, so despite all these things, I try to take somehow profit, but I'd prefer just being with someone professional, I am not requesting to have Elon Musk explaining me things, but at least be professional....

Thanks for reading this long text. And I appreciate your answer.