*Sponsored thoughts on the first page.
don’t forget the hallucinated AI generated answer on the top as well.
I don’t need AI to hallucinate memories in my mind thank you very much.
GenZ discovers thinking
This is how Microslop imagines the Copilot Recall feature works without understanding that precisely zero people would interact with their computer in a way to indicate the Chinese restaurant they searched for that one time has their favorite egg rolls.
i mean if they have access to everything, and esp if you ever praised those egg rolls to anyone, they could check which restaurants you’d been to shortly before then.
Makes sense. Me personally, after I have a good egg roll, I go back to my computer and create a new .txt file in Notepad and immediately type
“man that was a really good egg roll. Good egg roll Yen’s Chinese Food on 7th street. I really hope I dont forget this good egg roll I ate at Yen’s on Tuesday November 22and at 2pm. Good Yen’s roll egg Chinese yummy.”
Then I immediately delete the note so it can’t be searched and just pray someone was screenshotting everything on my computer for future review.
Sometimes I’m just on a walk or something mundane and suddenly realize I am enjoying it marginally less than I was sixty seconds ago and I think to my self desperately “what was that really fun and engaging thought I was having one minute ago?”
For me it’s the opposite. I will suddenly feel a bit better and more cheerful, and then think “Wait, what was I thinking about just a second ago that made me anxious and depressed?”
I’m sure it’s coming. And will be ad supported, and your memories will be tampered with so companies can sell you more crap that you don’t need.
I was going to scream: DON’T GIVE THEM IDEAS!!!
If only the general population would opt out of this bullshit
When people ask things like “what mundane superpower would you have” this is basically my go to. I want to operate my brain like a computer, search for stuff, delete stuff I don’t want, put it to sleep whenever I want, etc.
So many books and movies and games I’d love to delete and experience again.
But then, it gets kinda complicated, doesn’t it.
If I delete something I love there’s chance I might not love it again even when I see it, because I’m a different person at a different point in my life.
Even worse, if I delete something that had big influence on the person I became, shaped my thoughts and feelings, continues even now to do so, does that change who I am?
Its called writing a digital diary.
Or…write it down…or type it down. humans have had solutions for thousands of years. Corporations made the majority of us idiots.
But tech bros will be like SEE HOW GOOD AI WILL BE IT WILL SOLVE THIS PROBLEM BLARGHHH INVEST IN BLOCKCHAIN!
Commonplacing/journalling in something like obsidian could enable this, albeit not retroactively or automatically :3
Yeah I was about to say
Generally using tools for this sort of purpose is known as a “Personal Knowledge Base” or just “personal wiki”
Obsidian is a good software for that, and I use it for that purpose, albeit it’s not open-source. But it’s very useful to help keep you organized
Lady Butterfly is in a mood this evening
Writing is an excellent hobby with many benefits!
Edit: I see now how intensely sarcastic this must sound. It wasn’t, I’m just weird.
It doesn’t sound that weird. I agree with you.
One of many reasons why I want to be mentally uploaded to the cloud.
Though the main one is being worried about my mortality.
You should play the videogame Soma, you’d enjoy it.
Here’s some well written fiction illustrating why that’s probably a bad idea: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
This was a good read. Thank you.
If it’s “IMmOrtALITY wOUld gET bORInG AfTER AwHIle” then I pass. Boredom is preferable to Death.
It’s not. I’d recommend reading it. It’s pretty good.
You will be getting stuff like that in future, I predict. Oh, and you will also be getting ads in your brain
May i interest you in a second brain?
