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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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The meanings of this era will be restored by GPT-4 supervising the training of different GPT-3s, as they absorb more and more of the text/audio/video archives of today. Not unlike folks in r/ColorizedHistory using NN tools to colorize old black&white photos.
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In a symmetric way, we all do this in smaller scale, integrating across past and our perceptions of the immediate/immanent Present, in order to build a coherent picture of the euro’s that’s “rooted” in a sensible narrative. RetCon is the name of the game.
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Except a black and white photo persists and is strongly analogous to our technology, whereas there may be changes which make our lives seem as inaccessible as if they had never been photographed. Rate of change not guaranteed to be constant or well distributed, but even so.
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