Randomly freaked myself out by thinking how a few decades after we are dead, everything we’ve ever experienced will be only comprehensible in a historical way. The way we comprehend say 1821. Living memory is only living for a while. Then it’s dead.
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Everything you experience is a future black and white photo of people in silly clothes using primitive tech, figuratively speaking.
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Oh the humanity
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Start working on Rao's Diary? Pepys' Diary helped give lots of insight/context to his times with his diary, not meant to be read by contemporaries but expressly meant to be read by future generations. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pe
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I loved Pepys diary. But I felt it was written mostly for personal recall.
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yeah but consider that future civilizations will be able to derive perfect simulations of our personalities and societies using only our tweets
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Sometimes I watch old videos on YouTube and marvel at how much simpler it was. The shops all look quaint. Even growing up in the 80s is a pre-internet time that can't be comprehended by the kids. Make me feel nostalgic.
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I find it interesting and amusing to think how future historians will write about us.
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thinking about future brain-computer interfaces that record a person's IO stream, that can be then later be recalled and experienced by others
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