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Humans already generate too much garbage; thinking everything is worth saving is pretty deluded in my book. I hope this comment doesn't end up on web.archive.or
by moogly 3y ago
Humans already generate too much garbage; thinking everything is worth saving is pretty deluded in my book. I hope this comment doesn't end up on web.archive.org. Actually, the fact that I feel that is probable indication that I shouldn't even be posting it. I self-censor myself a lot these days: writing replies in a text editor and then deleting them instead of posting them online because I recognize the voicing of my opinions as rather pointless.
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoThe cost of carrying some words is so close to zero. Given the scale of data we do carry, it seems callous to me to begrudge people a couple megabytes of words in their life. Our ability to tell what is garbage & what has use seems incredibly poor. We just don't know. Who how & when do we take your mercenary plan into action to decide when to wipe things out? And we may glean great insight & wisdom from the aggregate, from being able to view historical sentiment. Efforts like the Google N-grams project can show incredible trends & patterns happening across time, and is just an incredibly simple first-level example of analysis.