this feels like a simplistic model of what’s going on with learning an instrument. iirc in the “principles of SR” post from 20 years ago wozniak makes a point that you essentially can’t start doing SR until you’ve already learned an item, this being obviously for purely sort of “fact” based learning. SR doesn’t apply in the way you’ve described for all of the processes of tuning, efficiency, and accuracy gains that you need for learning an instrument. my sloppy model here is that formal practice eg for music is something like priming the system to spend optimization cycles on that etc—I assume cognitive scientists claim to have actual models here which I suppose are >50% fake lol.
also, separately, professional musicians in fact do a cheap SR for old repertoire, where they practice only intermittently to keep it in memory once it’s been established.
this feels like a simplistic model of what’s going on with learning an instrument. iirc in the “principles of SR” post from 20 years ago wozniak makes a point that you essentially can’t start doing SR until you’ve already learned an item, this being obviously for purely sort of “fact” based learning. SR doesn’t apply in the way you’ve described for all of the processes of tuning, efficiency, and accuracy gains that you need for learning an instrument. my sloppy model here is that formal practice eg for music is something like priming the system to spend optimization cycles on that etc—I assume cognitive scientists claim to have actual models here which I suppose are >50% fake lol.
also, separately, professional musicians in fact do a cheap SR for old repertoire, where they practice only intermittently to keep it in memory once it’s been established.