[HN Gopher] Human Stigmergy: The world is my task list
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Human Stigmergy: The world is my task list
Author : Petiver
Score : 34 points
Date : 2025-07-15 19:27 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| bobson381 wrote:
| So - physical memory? I've been thinking recently about how we
| already live in an advanced computing environment: the world.
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| Our digital realm maybe mixes map for territory. And the point
| here is to make marks on the territory and throw the map away.
| Kind of makes me think of Lucy Suchman talking about navigating
| as situated action rather than planful analysis.
| davidjhall wrote:
| SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory) is awful; we
| tend to just have blocks of a few years of memories.
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| The only benefit is you can't be gas-lit intentionally because
| you are _always_ gas-lit, so you believe nothing. :-)
| FredPret wrote:
| I've always thought that the economy works this way - we
| coordinate on a mass scale and on a decentralized basis.
| Everytime you buy or sell something, you send a price signal
| which is heard around the world.
| downboots wrote:
| The housing crisis was an ant mill?
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill inb4: breadcrumb
| dollars, a bit coin, if you will https://www.designboom.com/wp-
| content/uploads/2022/05/bit-co...
| lucaspauker wrote:
| To me it seems like LLMs are basically memory for humans as a
| whole. By interfacing with them, you can extract the knowledge,
| eliminating the need to remember things.
| tines wrote:
| And become the perfect puppet for the ruling class! 1984's got
| nothing on us.
| felipemesquita wrote:
| I frequently place my car keys inside or under a thing I need to
| take with me when I leave. Costs me having to search for my keys,
| but only in the times when I would have otherwise forgotten the
| thing.
| munificent wrote:
| I love this article.
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| I can never decide whether I have a terrible memory or whether I
| just place a very high premium on maximizing my working memory.
| But, either way, I try to keep as much "to do" sort of knowledge
| out of my head as possible.
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| One of the main ways I do this is by ensuring everything goes in
| a logical place. I don't usually have to _remember_ where I put
| things because I just ask myself, "Where would past me have put
| this?" and the answer is usually where it is.
|
| Alas, I have a wife with ADHD, so my house is sort of like living
| in an Etch-a-Sketch where objects are randomly relocated when I'm
| not looking.
| OgsyedIE wrote:
| Looking at this through transhumanist metaphors, like in any of
| dozens of scifi works to cover future cognitions well (my
| favourite is Eclipse Phase, if you want a recommendation).
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| Exocortices would be great if the modern technology was there to
| support it, but the current paradigms make memory-access too slow
| and unreliable to be worth the agency benefits, especially since
| current brain formats need internally-stored memories for
| default-mode idea generation in the background and can't make
| good use of location pointers for dreams.
| readthenotes1 wrote:
| "People seem to do this all the time without much thought:"
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| I do it all the time with that because I know otherwise leads to
| catastrophe.
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| I want set a tell a woman I was going to be late for a date
| because I couldn't find my car keys. For some unknown reason I'd
| put them in the grocery bag and put the grocery bag directly into
| the refrigerator. It took me hours to find--hours I hadn't
| planned on because I usually put my keys in the same spot to
| avoid the nearly certain trouble that happens when I assume my
| future self will just remember what I did.
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