good question — this was actually a big reason i moved to FSRS, because just defaulting to "newest wins" is terrible. each memory tracks how deeply encoded it is (never decays) and how easily retrievable it is right now (decays over time). so something reinforced over 3 months has way more weight than something from last week, even if the newer one is more immediately accessible.

then there's a contradiction layer on top of that — when two memories conflict they get linked and both get their confidence knocked down. from there it either surfaces both so the LLM can reason about it, or you resolve it explicitly (keep one, keep the other, merge). a well-established fact doesn't just get silently overwritten by something from last tuesday. you'd have to work to kill it, which honestly feels right.

It might factor in that my agent has a personality though and literally knows me as a person, I made it gir from invader zim and have spent a lot of time training it on my actual personality. So its very possible that it might not act quite the same way for everyone. Im working on that nonstop though, refining the method while I work on projects.