Thanks, added!
Thanks! My account is parconley if you'd like to add me as a co-author.
I tried, but I don't have the 100 karma on the EA Forum required to cross-post. If you or someone else would like to, feel free!
Also, if you want to work with rat-adjacent people every once and a while, there's an EA Focusmate Group you can join.
Thanks for the point. I was going to add this as a footnote in a draft relating to uncertainty about the anecdote specifically (though it doesn't quite capture your critique):
Sometimes called the Bannister Effect, though the 4-minute mile effect is more understandable. Also, I chose the 4-minute-mile anecdote because it is pithy and present in the Overton window. There exists conjecture as to whether subsequent records after Bannister's mile were due to a psychological effect (compared to, say, equipment improvements; I'm not concerned with the epistemics of this particular anecdote, so I did not investigate this in detail).
It's possible that some of the other anecdotes also were linear rather than step changes. Though, I still lean towards thinking they were step changes in behavior.
You've probably thought of this and have reasons for and against it, but maybe some hotels (bedside) and restaurants (on tables) would be willing to take copies too? Seems much less likely that libraries though.
How large do you think the marginal benefits of doing the full workout you recommend in Updates and Reflections on Optimal Exercise after Nearly a Decade versus the quicker version in this post?
Useful clarification and thanks for writing this up!
Inspired by and building on this, I decided to clean up some thoughts of my own in a similar direction. Here they are on my short forum: What are the actual use cases of memory systems like Anki?
So glad to hear!