The Story of the Asshole

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The ability to know that you're an asshole is what is being bought by this technology. It's rare that you can be shown clear evidence of your assholes yeah especially ifIf it improves his relationship with his daughter though it might because she also finds that she didn't remember things totally clearly and so that softens her attitude a little bit towards him. "I feel like the emotional tone of the two is different in a way that you might conclude two opposite things from the modes of technology"

Memory is highly selective and often inaccurate. But what if we had an easily searchable video record of all our experiences and interactions? How would that affect our relationships? What would it reveal about our characters and our sense of who we are? Is there a kind of truth that can’t be determined by perfect objectivity? David and Tamler dive deep into Ted Chiang’s amazingly rich and poignant short story “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” which explores how new technologies shape individual and group identities.

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