Why do westerners even think that every little scrap of information has to be preserved for all eternity “just in case”?
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> Why do westerners even think that every little scrap of information has to be preserved for all eternity “just in case”?
Sorry for the "autistic" rant but I unironically believe we should archieve/preserve everything.
We lost a lot of knowledge during history, some even recent ones, because we(as in humanity) didn't record it, while there's a big difference between preservation and performative preservation, I'm someone who supports to save everything.
One of the most recent examples about the lost of knowledge is the "3rd spice shaker", in many historical books from the 17-19th century mentions a 3rd shaker on tables along with salt and pepper but for some reason no one took a note about what it was, so it's still considered an small historical mistery and we can only infer what it was.
Recently some archeologists found what could be the city of Masn/Masen that was cited in a lot of Egyptian manuscripts and tablets but never the location.
There's many examples like that through history, where every book mentions an extremely beautiful place, invader people(sea-people for example), treasures and more that was mentioned but because it was considered a trivial or knowledge that was know by everyone got lost to history.
This is even part of the idea behind Archive.org, archive everything no matter now small or crap it is. The problem was never the archival or the destruction of books by companies but the copyright owners that rather wants the content to cease to exist than making it available for free.
IMO I can see that a lot of people who complains about AI destroying books, are the same ones that got happy when Anthropic lost a 2.5Bi lawsuit and at the same time I can see the people who are fine with companies buying books in bulk just to destroy later are the same ones who are gets angry when a site blacklist themselves from Archive.org, or book companies sues them.
tl;dr: We should archive everything because every piece of knowledge can be helpful and copyright laws are the worst thing that exists
> Why do westerners even think that every little scrap of information has to be preserved for all eternity “just in case”?
Sorry for the "autistic" rant but I unironically believe we should archieve/preserve everything.
We lost a lot of knowledge during history, some even recent ones, because we(as in humanity) didn't record it, while there's a big difference between preservation and performative preservation, I'm someone who supports to save everything.
One of the most recent examples about the lost of knowledge is the "3rd spice shaker", in many historical books from the 17-19th century mentions a 3rd shaker on tables along with salt and pepper but for some reason no one took a note about what it was, so it's still considered an small historical mistery and we can only infer what it was.
Recently some archeologists found what could be the city of Masn/Masen that was cited in a lot of Egyptian manuscripts and tablets but never the location.
There's many examples like that through history, where every book mentions an extremely beautiful place, invader people(sea-people for example), treasures and more that was mentioned but because it was considered a trivial or knowledge that was know by everyone got lost to history.
This is even part of the idea behind Archive.org, archive everything no matter now small or crap it is. The problem was never the archival or the destruction of books by companies but the copyright owners that rather wants the content to cease to exist than making it available for free.
IMO I can see that a lot of people who complains about AI destroying books, are the same ones that got happy when Anthropic lost a 2.5Bi lawsuit and at the same time I can see the people who are fine with companies buying books in bulk just to destroy later are the same ones who are gets angry when a site blacklist themselves from Archive.org, or book companies sues them.
tl;dr: We should archive everything because every piece of knowledge can be helpful and copyright laws are the worst thing that exists