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by killjoywashere 596 days ago
There are multiple threat models where you can't trust yourself.

Your future self definitely can't trust your past self. And vice versa. If your future self has a stroke tomorrow, did your past self remember to write a living will? And renew it regularly? Will your future self remember that password? What if the kid pukes on the carpet before your past self writes it down?

Your current self is not statistically reliable. Andrej Karpathy administered an imagenet challenge to himself, his brain as the machine: he got about 95%.

I'm sure there are other classes of self-failure.

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Given the code quality of projects like nextcloud. Suggestions like this makes the head and table transmugify into magnets.