Are You Being an Asshole?

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I was actually thinking about like moments probably like a few years ago where I probably was looking at texts and like, Todd, you know, you said this. And I remember we had recordings. So he makes the point and there's a little illusion to bore his here. He has a story called Funas the Memorial about a man who remembers every single detail of his childhood with his grandmother. Chang: The problem with remember everything in specific detail is that you don't abstract away from from those specifics.

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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