A good friend of mine and and his son who sometimes listen to his podcast have had a long time disagree problem yeah I've had a long-standing disagreement about a memory from childhood probably a series of memories where the child vividly remembers some very very hurtful things that the father said. He swears he's he was incapable of saying those things he thinks this is just you know and and listening to them both it's it almost doesn't matter who's right what matters is they get past it but but if we did have this technology it might get them some way into resolving this because right now neither of them is willing to believe otherwise so
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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