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I have some sympathy for your philosophy, but clearly it's important to have a reasonable amount of memory and preservation, and to have some degree of control
by vertere 8y ago
I have some sympathy for your philosophy, but clearly it's important to have a reasonable amount of memory and preservation, and to have some degree of control over it. What we're facing seems like a rather random, senseless erosion of those things.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoIs it? If it were really of great value, would we have allowed it to errode?
- mbowcutt 8y agoShit happens. That's human nature.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoYes. Happens all the time. Individuals, companies and societies put biggest priority on short-term benefits. All it takes for some knowledge to erode is to be temporarily not worth maintaining, compared with other things you have to deal with at the moment. Then some time later you realize that knowledge would be extremely useful, but it's too late now. You mention physics. A constant in our universe is that things decay unless actively maintained. All life is fight against entropy. Trying to preserve things is only natural.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoBy that metric most of the universe fights against entropy. Stars form from clouds of hydrogen, planetary systems from dust, structure is born from formlessness. The stars grow, they consume, they mature, and then they die. Never once did they fight entropy except on a local scale. As I said, the math is pretty clear on this. We put priority on benefits we can realize. Short term benefits are easier to realize, and decisions made in the moment, absent malicious intent, make sense in the moment. Hindsight, as they say, is 20/20. We make a prediction now what will be important later, sometimes we are right, sometimes we are wrong. Perfection is impossible, and even if it weren't, it would not be worth the cost of trying to attain it.