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 (DIR) Post #ATqbfXGdxocARf3dBY by aiBlanket@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-03-21T17:24:16Z
       
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       “We think our memories are pure and uncorrupted, but this is a delusion. Every time we access a memory we rebuild it. Every time it’s rebuilt, things are added and things are lost. In fact, the more we remember something, the less resemblance that memory bears to the original event.”  ― Jo Harkin, Tell Me an EndingInteresting character study of how memories affect different individuals.https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tell-Me-an-Ending/Jo-Harkin/9781982164331#books #quotes #Bookstodon #reading #SciFi #ScienceFiction
       
 (DIR) Post #ATqbfYC4WIYHJlvUhM by icedquinn@blob.cat
       2023-03-21T17:40:45.750962Z
       
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       @aiBlanket i've actually been contemplating this artifact for AI purposes.if the hippocampus in a human is damaged they cannot form any new memories. and new memories seem to be subject to weird rules like they cannot contain hierarchical symbols. once a memory is dropped in to long term storage in the neocortex it can represent a complex thought, but the working memory space cannot do it (though it can reference complex thoughts already encoded), so i've been wondering if there is something the brains are doing like lifting sections back up to working memory to edit them sometimes.with an AI we subject them to training across the whole network and then we just stop when we are done. and computing the updates for everything is intractable. i'm not sure we're supposed to be constantly misremembering stuff but it seems like we may have some kind of sparse subset mechanism that is causing it.(well, actually, i tend to look at psychological artifacts in people quite a bit for this stuff. they have peculiar underlying reasons.)