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PaperclipPerfector  10d ago (text post)   2074 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for April 10, 2026

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I've still got the old AOL Instant Messenger (remember that, kiddos?) logs from when I used to chat with my high school girlfriend right up until she broke up with me

Same (well, MSN Messenger logs). I'm planning to use them along with other sources of information (photographs, memories, etc.) to create a fork of her after the singularity. Which, now that I think about it, would also make for a pretty good Black Mirror episode!

Its funny, I think it was mostly just a hoarding instinct at the time, but now that we see that its trivial to train up AIs on people's writings and other outputs, I am saving as much of my own writing as I can specifically so my presence in the post-singularity can have the highest fidelity possible.

I've still got almost ALL of the digital footprint I created from my youth. Old school assignments, chat logs, saved game files, a little softcore porn, scans of old physical photographs, its all on physical hard drives I still have in my possession.

The question now is whether I should add those to an internet facing storage unit. so that the superintelligence can more easily vacuum them up.

I will caution that unused drives, especially unused solid state drives, will bleed data fidelity over time. If you want to maintain those files, regardless of how, it's worth copying them or writing in place even if you're 'just' intending them as cold storage.

I spin them up every so often just to make sure the data is still easily recoverable.

But most of these are old HDDs with pitiful capacities. I built my first computer in the early 2000's.

My current to-do is getting things transferred to my own on-site server, AND an off-site backup.

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