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Every future historian is hissing at you right now. So much of the past is completely opaque to us because of decay, intentional destruction and lack of intere
by andybak 2y ago
Every future historian is hissing at you right now.
So much of the past is completely opaque to us because of decay, intentional destruction and lack of interest. I think there's a moral imperative to preserve.
- samwillis 2y agoThings that are important to society will naturally be preserved. I believe in the moral right to be forgotten. We cannot, and should not, preserve all of knowledge forever. Don't get me wrong, I love the internet archive, and the team behind it are incredible. As a resource it's very important to maintain and preserve. However, I'm sure that at some point, either due to the economics of it or through hardware failure, the content saved by the AI will begin to be lost. I don't see that as a bad thing.
- user_7832 2y agoIf someone requests for their content to be deleted, IIRC the IA does it. In other cases however I don't see the need to remove old(er) content. Particularly also because older content/webpages were far lighter than modern equivalents - you may need to delete 10 or even 100 old website archives to store one new one. Decay is natural, but so is the human/animal urge to stop it.
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