[mejari]

This seems like a ridiculous idea borne of the fetishization of crypto/blockchains/nft/whatever nonsense.

There is fundamentally no act of preservation in destroying a physical object, you have to twist all logic and reality to think so.

[anonporridge]

Except that it's not destroyed.

It's ascended to a higher plane of existence, above the constraints of meatspace.

[UncleMeat]

I can just imagine the weeping historians and archivists of the future learning that this happened. Digitized artifacts are not the same artifacts, even when photographed at incredible resolution. We keep finding more ways of understanding objects that rely on more than just their text or visual perception.

[mejari]

That's not a real thing.

[holonomically]

I'm pretty sure they're joking.

[anonporridge]

I'm not

[anonporridge]

What is real?

How do you define "real"?

[MrMan]

one definition is stuff that can still be detected after the power goes out. there are so many ways to frame it

[anonporridge]

How about only the stuff that stays around after culture and language collapses?