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For tech savvy people, it's a bewildering feature. Why would I want some weird unpredictable AI thing when I've already got filesystem search, browser bookmarks
by rvense 2y ago
For tech savvy people, it's a bewildering feature. Why would I want some weird unpredictable AI thing when I've already got filesystem search, browser bookmarks, the neatly categorized PDF collection, and my Zettelkästen/2GB Org.mode doc/Joplin notes?
But for non-technical people, of course, computers are already unpredictable. They routinely (appear to) misplace files and overwrite them with previous versions, and if the URL falls out of autocomplete the site might as well not exist. For people who google to find the Facebook login page, this would simply be how computers should work. You tell it to give you the thing and it gives you the thing. How that happens is immaterial.
- chuckadams 2y agoI’m plenty savvy and I’d like that AI thing. I’d just like it to be more discerning about what it records, and managed in a way that’s not a pinkie-swear promise to protect my privacy. MS has a track record both long and recent that shows they’re not the appropriate stewards of this data. I don’t even see MS as mustache-twirling villains in general, just incompetent at an organizational level to stand up to whatever scheme any individual mustache-twirling marketing middle manager comes up with.
- usrbinbash 2y agoI can, and am, using a locally running LLM with RAG on my personal wiki already. The difference between that and Recall: I decide what goes into the wiki.
- callalex 2y agoI know it’s generally unhelpful to discuss voting on this site, but I must point out the irony that this particular comment chain started with “I haven’t heard anybody saying they want this” and then the one comment saying “I want this” was rejected so hard it was threatening to disappear if I didn’t save it.
- doug_durham 2y agoWhy are you conflating being tech savvy with being organized? Only a subset of people in tech that I know have the type of organization you describe. I personally rely on local search for everything.