[poisonborz]

I think this is the feature everybody wants. Not in Windows, not from Microsoft, probably not yet, but it is so obvious and useful that I'm sure this will be a default thing for a future human.

Imagine never forgetting anything. That tune, what your spouse told you to get, a meeting summary, recall or replay a dear memory. People _without_ this ability would be outliers and strangely left behind. I know there was a Black Mirror on this, but imagine this to be safe, private, local, toggleable even. Life becomes a book you can flip back.

Humanity longed for this for ages. From written diaries to personal data exports of social networks... for better or worse, it's a natural causation of our life becoming digital.

[soganess]

I agree that it will super useful and can't wait for the OSS version of it on Linux that respects my privacy but only kinda does the same thing with a less useful LLM at its core.

That said, I wonder if general folks will see the toggling of this is the same way they initially did for incognito mode? Namely, that you would only use it to watch porn or do something nefarious. The classic "If you don't have anything to hide, why hide?" History has obviously proven that first impression as a rather reductive and silly one. Plus cultural norms/opinions around incognito mode are very neutral now.

Or if this will be like turning a bodycam off for cops? Imagine the distopia of a boss asking why you turned recall off for 30 minutes while you were on your lunchbreak...

I guess it is good that we have pocket supercomputers.

[rbits]

I mean, there's already software to record your screen for companies. Getting access to recall would be the same as installing tracking software, which they can and do already use

[pseudalopex]

> I know there was a Black Mirror on this, but imagine this to be safe, private, local, toggleable even.

Wasn't it private by default, local, and erasable in Black Mirror? And what does safe mean?

[hagbard_c]

> Imagine never forgetting anything

You mean imagine forgetting everything because you don't need to remember anything since that is done by your personal agent - until the battery is dead, the model crashes, your neurocannula gets clogged, an EMP takes out your memory module or an update accidentally wipes your life.

Dear Mr. Poisonborz,

During a routine update of your MegaMind Ti666GX module a mishap occurred which wiped the module and its cloud backup clean. Since you did not purchase the optional MindCare insurance and there does not seem to be a recent off-line backup we are sad to inform you that your life's experiences have been lost for good. To make up for this inconvenience we can offer you a 1 year free MyStorey subscription which will help you fill in the blanks using our state of the art Experiencer technology - just tell it what you want to remember and it will create the memory for you.

[poisonborz]

You assume this has to be some convoluted black box, a proprietary service on some corporate servers, but people are not stupid, not after what happened in the last decade - look how even leading LLMs become local-first and offline already. The stored data should also remain simple - images, text files, video.

[metalspoon]

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