Brian Romelle says we are losing petabytes of human information daily. He refers to it the present as “the amnesia generation”.
There is a tendency to forget or even overwrite the past. More and more people are “asking AI” for the truth on controversial matters. How would you know if the AI system was always nudging you one direction?
Wikipedia was turned into a tool for propaganda and control. Social media tends to be a cesspool of inbreeding.
Families are throwing away their memories like pictures and written history. Newspapers, magazines, getting lost every day How much printed material is there from the past 200 years? How much of it has been digitized and how much of it will be digitized?
What is the solution?
The solution can’t be a “government program” because that would undermine the very trust the system needs. The current trust in institutions seems to last only as long as a presidential election cycle. Even if government funds the solution in some form, the end result must be independently verifiable such that the government has no ability to influence the outcome.
The data we are discussing must be digitized which requires a lot of human capital. Robotics will be exploding in the next 5 years and have great potential to improve the costs here.
Monetize data search and retrieval. Governments (libraries) can buy tokens and even run nodes but any member can freely verify.
In the next few years humanity needs a new decentralized, independently verified system for preserving data and understanding how it applies to life today. Robotics will help us preserve the past and future advancements in AI will enable humanity to preserve wisdom into the golden age.
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