Spaced repetition can lower stakes of destructive inbox-maintenance operations

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https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Spaced_repetition_can_lower_the_stakes_around_destructive_inbox-maintenance_operations

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What he's calling "spaced repetition" (a strategy for learning) [1] is probably better cast as "exponential backoff" [2]. Related, but somehow different.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_backoff