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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Future of data (alien.top)

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I'm extremely worried about data deletion or including it into ai. When ai can extrapolate beyond its trainingsdata, there might be a chance of not needing the dataset anymore. Well yes i could just go with the synthetical stuff which will come, and there is no way that this timelines progress will stop. But then again, keeping the data that has led to this progress alone is worth it. Thats like the invention of fire and how our ancestors did it. Ofcourse i want to keep such things and not change it at all.

Information isnt as preservable as i thought and i hope science will find a way to keep what we did. I can't imagine losing everything and to life with that alone is a pain. Atleast for the next 30-100 years.

What do you think about that?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I suspect that you have already lost it.

Do an experiment. Go out in some "natural" environment. Using ONLY the natural stuff you find there, no tools and nothing you brought with you, make a fire. Keep it burning for at least an hour. No metal. No string.

The ability to make and control fire is a very important part of what it means to be human.

Are you human?