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The reason I do this is that there are fascinating and unpredictable interactions between behavior and identity that extend out into the indeterminate future.
by rsync 5y ago
The reason I do this is that there are fascinating and unpredictable interactions between behavior and identity that extend out into the indeterminate future.
If we assume this information persists forever - and we might as well - it represents infinite liability and risk whereas the mitigations I have proposed cost almost nothing.
Or, to put it another way, it's very cheap insurance.
- kcb 5y agoLife is finite
- royaltjames 5y agoData is forever
- nicholasjarnold 5y ago"A datum is forever" - De Nerds circa 2022, inspired by a quip from one royaltjames of the same era I like this a lot more than the De Beers campaign popularized in the late 1940s[0]! [0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you-ever-tried-to-sell-a-diamond/304575/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-yo...
- mathrawka 5y agoA life span is finite, but your life during the life span is infinite. See chaos theory's infinitely long line in a finite-sized circle
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- warent 5y agoYou're saying the word "unpredictable" but with cognitive dissonance, because you are predicting disaster. If it is truly unpredictable, then you may be diminishing something which may actually be beneficial and necessary in the future. This obfuscated data which may or may not be linked to you (or the lack of data entirely, a void which certainly is linked to you) is itself forever persistent and represents its own infinite liability. Not to say that you're wrong or right, just pointing out that your claim of somehow rising above this system is bogus. No matter what we do, our mark (be it a shadow profile or a void) is left, and perceptions will form around it that cannot be predicted.
- kenjackson 5y agoOr even worse -- behaviors that attempt to hide identity may in the future be the exact sort of thing they use to do forensic sweeps. Unfortunately, I think that is just as likely as anything else.