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Yeah no. That's the logic of someone who is telling you that rain has always been a part of nature and that you should embrace rather than fight it - while they
by xg15 5y ago
Yeah no. That's the logic of someone who is telling you that rain has always been a part of nature and that you should embrace rather than fight it - while they are stealing the tiles from your roof.
What I mean is, on the one hand, you're correct: Loss in some sense is the default state of the universe, there will always be loss and there are far worse things than losing some stuff on the internet.
On the other hand, it feels hypocritical to talk this way about instances of loss that we have control over. The current mass extinction is not simply some natural event that came over is and that we have to accept like Tolkien's Long Goodbye. It's a decidedly unnatural event that we know the causes of very well.
In a similar way, the loss of information on the internet is not "natural" either, it's the result of deliberate business decisions that come from a specific trend of monetization.
- joenathanone 5y agoYou ignored his other point >Plus, the alternative is far worse: dreadful "stable dystopias" like 1984 and Brave New World, which afford no exit from within, by construction, can only be stopped in this way.
- dottedmag 5y agoFalse dychotomy
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- carapace 5y agoArchive.org causes North Korea? - - - - Seriously though, I actually think that the effects of mass digital information on society are going to be very, uh, interesting going forward. I wonder about the people whose parents have been documenting their lives on FB since they were born, or the kids who have never spent more than a few hours away from their smart phones.
- formerkrogeremp 5y agoI think it is called "sharenting" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharenting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharenting
- smokey_circles 5y agojust an utterly daft opinion. you cannot fight entropy, you can only feed it
- Zababa 5y ago> In a similar way, the loss of information on the internet is not "natural" either, it's the result of deliberate business decisions that come from a specific trend of monetization. It is the default. To keep information around "forever" you need people working on it forever. Current storage mediums don't even last 100 years. Browsers change, technologies get dropped (flash), people stop paying for websites (geocities). Bandwith isn't free. If you want to preserve anything you have to make an actual effort, put energy in. Things decay by nature.