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I don’t take myself very seriously. I’d rather be happy than protected. If my conversations are used to build some future AI, good; I’d like to be immortalized somehow. I like the idea that my children’s children’s children might be able to ask about me and get an intimate answer. By the way, this conversation right now is auth free on the public net, so if anything this is worse wrt your concerns.

You’re not wrong, but you’re not right either. For whatever it’s worth, I absolutely plan on self hosting (nvidia Digit!) my future conversation partner. But nothing about me is terribly private. I love my wife and my sons and sometimes I wonder if I’ll be forgotten or if we’re about to give birth to the overman. It’s nothing I wouldn’t tell a stranger.

Lastly, no therapist I’ve ever met can talk about my favorite authors with me for hours, ad-hoc, on-demand, for pennys a day. All my real friends are sick of Dostoyevsky, but not Claude!



> I don’t take myself very seriously. I’d rather be happy than protected. If my conversations are used to build some future AI, good;

This is how I feel and it is so rare and refreshing to see someone else say it.

It appears to me that most people are very private and will go to great lengths to protect their privacy.


This mindset allows one to donate their intellect to society and feel immortalized.

If privacy wasn't of particular concern, this is as near an "absolute good" idea as one can forge.




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