Comment by kaoD
5 days ago
To give a different perspective: archival is important. If nobody does this job, generational knowledge is lost at some point.
I talked plenty with my grandpa, but I'm sure he didn't even tell me 20% of his life.
And my other grandpa died when I was still a kid, so I didn't even get to have adult conversations with him.
Imagine making this available to your grandgrandgrandson.
Yeah, but you're kaoD. You're a bonafide person. You should talk with other people; it's good. (We're chatting right now.)
That's quite different from chatting with a bot that pretends to be human. (Do you want to chat with my bot?)
Yes. And I will die along with the memories from my grandpa. Most of them died already with him, and I don't remember all our conversations.
I have no kids but, even if I did, let's say I'd pass 20% of the 20% he passed on to me, and they pass 20% of the 20% of the 20%... You get the idea.
Heck, I already forgot 50% of my life since I don't have a journal!
This is not an "either" situation. Archival is important.
People write memories for a reason. This is automating the process, not superseding human communication.
I am the sort of person that never took photos (live in the moment yadda yadda). 15 years later, I'm starting to regret it.
Why does it have to be black and white? Why can't a bot do the exploration and notetaking along with people in the channel?
That's not how I interpreted it as being in this instance, but it could certainly be that way.
I guess that'd be like keeping all correspondence in a shoe box (to be reviewed later -- or maybe never), or maybe the automated recording of my phone calls with others (which is completely legal where I am; I don't even have to tell them).
And I suppose whether I felt that would be creepy or not depends a lot upon intent, and consent.
If the intent were pure and good, and the consent both informed and granted, then I'd have no problem with any of this at all -- whether a shoebox, a tape recorder, or a bot is involved in taking the notes.
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