[HN Gopher] Total recall: the people who never forget
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       Total recall: the people who never forget
        
       Author : mhb
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2022-02-18 21:15 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | BlameKaneda wrote:
       | _But when it came to remembering details that did not relate to
       | her personally, Price proved no better than average. She recalled
       | the date the Iran hostage crisis began because she had made that
       | detail part of her personal narrative of the day it happened.
       | School, she says, was "torture" for her - she couldn't remember
       | facts and figures...Other details, if they didn't relate to her
       | or her interests, were forgotten: once, she was asked to close
       | her eyes and recall what her two interviewers, who she'd spent
       | several hours with that day, were wearing - she
       | couldn't....Price's memory is as selective as yours or mine,
       | storing the things that she finds important - she is just a good
       | deal better at retaining and retrieving those memories._
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       | Since Price seems to be adept at recalling how
       | people/events/things made her _feel_ in the moment, if I had to
       | guess she probably relives the bad (e.g. harmful critiques) on a
       | regular basis.
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       | I can't say I'd want that ability.
        
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