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I think you're making a wrong comparison here. Disappearing messages is not akin to forcing the other party to take memory-suppressant drugs (wtf?), it's more a

• hoseja 5y ago
  If you remember something in your brain, you have recorded it. Electronic records are only different in scale/capability and guaranteed perfect recall.
  • Symbiote 5y ago
    The scale and guaranteed perfect recall are not "only" different, they are fundamental differences. I would find it odd if someone were writing down everything I said. I already find it quite strange when I write something (on Signal or similar), and the person responds with a quote-reply of something I said years ago. "But I thought you wanted to visit Moscow?" or even "I'm sure you said you wanted to visit Moscow" are quite different from "here's the message you sent on 2019-02-05 at 14:32 telling me you wanted to visit Moscow".
    • hoseja 5y ago
      I have met several people who can tell me "You told me in the afternoon in early february that you wanted to visit Moscow", with me barely remembering it, that the line is blurry.
• GistNoesis 5y ago
  Not recording the conversation would be something akin a no-log session, or the view-once message they already have. Semantically here it's like the self destruct message they send in Impossible Mission but with a very long timer, it's a new primitive I'm not used to handled yet. A garbage-collector for your memories like I am inviting the Langoliers into my phone.