full slop. I kind of worry that long-term exposure to content like this will reduce humans to 8th graders doing a book report on books they haven't read.
> But memory without decay is less than human.
How is it less than human? By definition, the undecayed memory is more complete.
> Nostalgia itself might be the first compression algorithm: a lossy filter that turns clutter into resonance.
What is this even supposed to mean? I guess the idea is something here like "fuzzy" memory == "compression" but nostalgia is an emotional response - we're often nostalgic about clear, vivid memories, experiences that didn't lose their texture to time.
> Without the soft erasures of time, experience calcifies into raw data, and raw data has no mercy.
Eh... kinda. Calcifies is the wrong word here. Raw data doesn't have mercy, but lossily-compressed data is merciful? Is memory itself merciful? Or is it a mercy for the rememberer to be spared their past shames?
So much AI slop is like this: it's just words words words words without ideas behind them.
> But memory without decay is less than human.
How is it less than human? By definition, the undecayed memory is more complete.
> Nostalgia itself might be the first compression algorithm: a lossy filter that turns clutter into resonance.
What is this even supposed to mean? I guess the idea is something here like "fuzzy" memory == "compression" but nostalgia is an emotional response - we're often nostalgic about clear, vivid memories, experiences that didn't lose their texture to time.
> Without the soft erasures of time, experience calcifies into raw data, and raw data has no mercy.
Eh... kinda. Calcifies is the wrong word here. Raw data doesn't have mercy, but lossily-compressed data is merciful? Is memory itself merciful? Or is it a mercy for the rememberer to be spared their past shames?
So much AI slop is like this: it's just words words words words without ideas behind them.