Is He a Good Guy or a Bad Guy?

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"I think that it's a mistake to think yeah that he is either a good or a bad guy right this is just shit we do," she says. "Our intentionality overwhelms our behavior in our own view of who we are and other people's behavior overwhelms their intentionality when we judge other people" She adds: "We're people who undoubtedly are are bad and good but I'm sort of like the hard line situation."

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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