During the Western Eclipse, there were two popular forms of entertainment. The first one was putting on ‘earphones’ to listen to two strangers bantering while you were stuck in traffic. The other was sitting alone in a dark room watching ‘electronic games’ on a ‘computer’.
You mean playing ‘electronic games’.
No, they watched strangers play the game and talking over it. Everyone under 30 got all their information and opinions served to them by people broadcasting themselves playing ‘electronic games’. Some of these players got rich, and wielded great influence and power. They styled themselves with ridiculous names: Fouldaggior, Prophecy, Moldhaven, Creampie, Shaslik, Zimzam, Hoooorg…
This is a serious history class, you can’t just make stuff up, no one is going to believe this crap
There’s so much documentation now that this stuff should survive, but it does makes me wonder if there are legitimate historical events that are universally accepted as mythology because they sound overly farfetched and couldn’t be extensively documented in their era.
Me, minutes after reading an official government tweet claiming a graphic showing that our entire solar grid failed to generate any electricity between dusk and dawn proves that solar energy is a catastrophic failure: No emperor could be stupid enough to believe he was wearing clothes he couldn’t see.
I meant more documentation in the form of discussion through social media. Like sure, there could be uncertainty over the legitimacy of any one specific event, but I feel like there shouldn’t be much question that the regular absurdity is widely accepted as real during the era it’s taking place in. I can’t picture a future archaeologist looking back and claiming the vast majority of this was fiction.
I think there is a genuine risk that the digital records like reporting and discussions get lost in the public record and only persist in AI datasets and eventually the AI datasets get lost as well and we only have the models.
There is a real cost, not unfathomably high, but big enough and recurring, for keeping that data around. The orgabisations doing that in the public interest are under constant legal threats.
Hell yeah dude.
Assuming.ing we have much of a future left, the history books about the past decade are gonna be fuckin wild.
Historians in China writing “this actually happened” about this period in America.
Children in China having to learn about what a podcaster is in order to properly understand the downfall of the Reich.
And then their prophets, the Tate brothers Bugatti, were extradited to Britain while on the run from Romania.
“Now honest to God, I’m not making any of this up.” But in Chinese.
Anyway I remember peeking in one of the fresh history books my high school had and yeah, they referenced Trump posting on Twitter.
There’s so much documentation now that this stuff should survive, but it does makes me wonder if there are legitimate historical events that are universally accepted as mythology because they sound overly farfetched and couldn’t be extensively documented in their era.
Me, minutes after reading an official government tweet claiming a graphic showing that our entire solar grid failed to generate any electricity between dusk and dawn proves that solar energy is a catastrophic failure: No emperor could be stupid enough to believe he was wearing clothes he couldn’t see.
All those digital records can so easily get lost.
I meant more documentation in the form of discussion through social media. Like sure, there could be uncertainty over the legitimacy of any one specific event, but I feel like there shouldn’t be much question that the regular absurdity is widely accepted as real during the era it’s taking place in. I can’t picture a future archaeologist looking back and claiming the vast majority of this was fiction.
I think there is a genuine risk that the digital records like reporting and discussions get lost in the public record and only persist in AI datasets and eventually the AI datasets get lost as well and we only have the models.
There is a real cost, not unfathomably high, but big enough and recurring, for keeping that data around. The orgabisations doing that in the public interest are under constant legal threats.