Couple hundred years and cataclysmic disasters and only L. Ron Hubbard writings will be left.
Shining a light on the digital dark age
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Re: Shining a light on the digital dark age
#52I think there is something to be said about what is worth archiving. I don't know what it is that should be said though. It seems weird to me that as a society we might be saving things such as a 10 hour video of white noise for another 100 years rather than some personal blogs. What is and isn't worth saving?
I think there is something to be said about what is worth archiving. I don't know what it is that should be said though. It seems weird to me that as a monastery we might be saving things such as a 10 volume satyrical piece about a forgotten greek tyrant for another 100 years rather than some personal thoughts of an Egyptian philosopher. What is and isn't worth saving?
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#53With AI we have a real chance of 'losing the past' as in we won't be able to tell fact from fiction. The bar to modify images, video, and text form the past will be so low that everyone will do it. And on top of that, coming autonomous agents will do be creating and modifying information at rates we just won't be able to keep up with. I'd say we should sign everything we can now, anything created from 2023 onward is…
is that really any different than the rest of history? maybe blindly trusting recordings is a bubble.
Re: Shining a light on the digital dark age
#54I think there is something to be said about what is worth archiving. I don't know what it is that should be said though. It seems weird to me that as a society we might be saving things such as a 10 hour video of white noise for another 100 years rather than some personal blogs. What is and isn't worth saving?
It will probably end up being the most popular things, the most viewed or read. More copies of it, more likely to be archived. This reminds me of books. I’m sure the majority of books from over a hundred years ago are lost because they weren’t popular. We haven’t really noticed their absence…
> It will probably end up being the most popular things, the most viewed or read. More copies of it, more likely to be archived.
So, 10 hours of white noise yes, some person's personal blog where they poured their heart out, no.
Beautiful.
Re: Shining a light on the digital dark age
#55With AI we have a real chance of 'losing the past' as in we won't be able to tell fact from fiction. The bar to modify images, video, and text form the past will be so low that everyone will do it. And on top of that, coming autonomous agents will do be creating and modifying information at rates we just won't be able to keep up with. I'd say we should sign everything we can now, anything created from 2023 onward is…
is that really any different than the rest of history? maybe blindly trusting recordings is a bubble.
So is prosperity and civilization.
Re: Shining a light on the digital dark age
#56With AI we have a real chance of 'losing the past' as in we won't be able to tell fact from fiction. The bar to modify images, video, and text form the past will be so low that everyone will do it. And on top of that, coming autonomous agents will do be creating and modifying information at rates we just won't be able to keep up with. I'd say we should sign everything we can now, anything created from 2023 onward is…
is that really any different than the rest of history? maybe blindly trusting recordings is a bubble.
Is good to remind that history is always written by the winner side by necessity.
Also they usually like to burn any -history- or -culture- of the loosing side and adapt their customs to their new ones and call it a day, erasing history pretty much, as much of it as they can at least.
YMMV
Re: Shining a light on the digital dark age
#57We have made a lot of progress in this field.
Part of storing data is the cost per byte per year. That cost is ridiculously low on my home 52 TB workstation. (2 TB NVME, 14 TB and 2x 18 TB HDDs)
A backup copy is stored on 3x 18 TB HDDs in USB enclosures.
Re: Shining a light on the digital dark age
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#59I think there is something to be said about what is worth archiving. I don't know what it is that should be said though. It seems weird to me that as a society we might be saving things such as a 10 hour video of white noise for another 100 years rather than some personal blogs. What is and isn't worth saving?
IMO social media got a little better once temporary stories came out. Slack’s limited search history is a feature too - forces you to document using appropriate tools and not endless email threads…
> Slack’s limited search history
I'm sure that I don't know what you mean. My employer is on a paid plan for Slack, and searches cover everything, as far back as I wish to go. Are you thinking of the limitations on the free license?
Re: Shining a light on the digital dark age
#60With AI we have a real chance of 'losing the past' as in we won't be able to tell fact from fiction. The bar to modify images, video, and text form the past will be so low that everyone will do it. And on top of that, coming autonomous agents will do be creating and modifying information at rates we just won't be able to keep up with. I'd say we should sign everything we can now, anything created from 2023 onward is…
is that really any different than the rest of history? maybe blindly trusting recordings is a bubble.
AI is going to give us the power to extrapolate information from the past like never before. With a few lines of text I may be able to create a feature film on Abraham Lincoln, how much of that will be 'frog DNA' spliced in to keep the story going? Which may be used as source data for something else, and so on. The past is already a game of telephone into the future. With the ability to fill in the blanks provided by AI, the signal to noise goes way down. Figuring out the actual real source information becomes a lot more valuable, but without locking down that source information today we may lose the ability to verify many pieces of information as sources versus AI creations in the future.