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> AI is not good at forgetting. There is also a related feeling of fatigue with our own digital archives - photos, old writings. We like to save them but not t
by visarga 1y ago
> AI is not good at forgetting.
There is also a related feeling of fatigue with our own digital archives - photos, old writings. We like to save them but not to look at them. They evoke powerful and somewhat uncomfortable feelings. And once we write something down, or take a photo of it, it gets out of our head, we don't care about it as much. The simple presence of the archive changes how we think.
- DaveZale 1y agoSame here! I don't want to be reminded of an passing interest that I had ten years ago when I was researching a topic briefly, either, which is what a newsfeed might offer up. And I completely agree about old photos. Sometimes I get a new used phone just to start fresh. My stack of old used phones is always there if I want to see the old photos. But I've never looked. Same with email contacts in gmail. Someone I briefly corresponded with about business 15 years ago will pop up as an email address gets typed ahead automatically and I will just smh and type over it. It's good to just move on to new things sometimes. Forget unpleasant jobs in the past.