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Harvard Prof Says Computers Need to Forget
Jessamine writes "A Harvard professor argues that too much information is being retained by computers, and the machines need to learn how to forget things as humans always have. "If whatever we do can be held against us years later, if all our impulsive comments are preserved, they can easily be combined into a composite picture of ourselves," he writes in the paper. "Afraid how our words and actions may be perceived years later and taken out of context, the lack of forgetting may prompt us to speak less freely and openly." Will such massive databases make us all act like politicians? Is data retention creating a "panopticon"? These are questions that the good doctor raises."
Score: 3??? Can't anybody spot a troll these days?!?!
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
"Because he's a republican" - please, don't make me laugh.
Clinton was raping half of the South with law enforcement assistance during the 1980s and early 90s, and about the only coverage it got was on talk radio, even when the lawsuits were flying. They had to impeach the bastard to even get the media to notice.
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