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"We do have historical luminaries whose works we save, but the harsh fact is that most people just aren’t special enough where we need to keep everything they g
by k__ 6y ago
"We do have historical luminaries whose works we save, but the harsh fact is that most people just aren’t special enough where we need to keep everything they generate."
I think that hybris is what slows us down.
If we got the storage for the history of the everyday person and the compute to analyze it in masses, why not doing it?
Maybe, conservatives would finally keep their mouths shut about how everything was better yesterday and we can finally work with a clear view on what's really wrong with the world...
- antepodius 6y agoWhat if all the stored information occasionally proved a historical 'conservative' right on some issue? Maybe there really were some aspects of life that were better way back when. We might want to figure out what the tradeoffs are. Is everyone being obese a necessary consequence of modernity? Things are more complicated than you think, and the conservatives are people too. It seems profoundly illiberal to discount their suffering (their lived experience) just because they seem wrong-headed.