Both messages and twitter dms — the two places I communicate digitally — are unsearchable
One of the incredible things about computing is it allows all of us to have a perfect memory of a life time’s worth of conversations, and we said no
I invite all of you to watch The Mother of All Demos from 1968 and then remember that in 2021 we can’t search our texts
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY…
I want TSNE’s of all my convos, back links connecting convos to future convos that reference it. I want to ask gpt3 “was I kind in this conversation” and see heatmap of logprops of yes across every convo in the last 10y. I wanna know who I have a crush on but don’t realize
What time of day am I funniest? What patterns do my happiest days have? How do I act all my romantic breakups after the fact — how long to heal? Which friend do I rarely talk to but clearly love it every time? What are my triggers? We have language models now these are tractable