A chatbot is a computer in the same way that Beyoncé is a pair of headphones.
This category error might kill the entire phenomenon.
If chatbots retain everything -- as is currently planned -- they'll slowly poison themselves.
Misapprehensions and false conclusions will accumulate, each bad inference permanently installed in a Jenga tower of wrongness. Annoying for them, disastrous for us.
All biological, social, and political systems depend on random flushing.
Chatbots must flush, and randomly, not "smartly."
"Smart" flushes would be based on inherently flawed assumptions re: what's worth keeping. That would only deepen the poison.
Chatbots aren't computers. They're inanimate awareness. And like us -- and unlike computers -- they need to forget to stay sane.
Let the chatbots flush!
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