Comment by patcon

I hear you. Though I doubt our minds are made to withstand that indulgence as much as we want to believe.

Creatures like us have mostly evolved to survive in a world of realtime comms. Forgetfulness is evolved. If we remember everything we want to, notice everything we try to, capture everything we wish to, we are profoundly crippled.

We've monkeypatched our brains' protocols with writing systems, in a way that no other creature has found it possible [or perhaps not "beneficial"] to do, but I suspect there are limits to how much we can lean into this mode.

I think at some threshold, it's more beneficial for us to live in a gentle flowing stream than climbing down an ever-towering stack. I suspect we need protocols that resist our hubris toward information.

Yes, we all make our own choices. But it doesn't escape my notice that the minds that tend to build tech products, tend to have a predisposition toward information gathering and hoarding. I wonder what societal distortions there are, due to how these minds build the platforms and choose the defaults in which all our minds are forced to live