For context: I’m a young adult, I don’t think I have any serious brain issues yet.
But I’ve recently been just trying to remember the past and although its kinda tragic, there are very interesting moments and I want to keep these memories forever.
But brains aren’t perfect, and I’m just so scared.
Even re-reading the events from a journal woudn’t exactly be the same as remembering it.
Idk, I’m kinda just obsessed with some memories for some reason. Don’t wanna let go of it. Having this “backstory” (for lack of a better term), is what drives me forward, without those memories, like if I get a concussion and forgot everything, I wouldn’t really be… well… “me” anymore, and the thought of that is terrifying.
I’m not terrified, but I am a bit of a data hoarder and that includes my memories. So what I did was buy one of these things and now whenever I take my dog for a walk I record an audio log. I’ve got over ten years of them at this point. For most of that time it was just sitting stored in a folder as a bunch of audio files in subfolders by date, but in the past year or two thanks to the sudden advances in AI I’ve written up a Python script that transcribed them all and lets me search the transcripts. I’m expecting in another year or two I’ll be able to feed all this into a local AI and be able to talk to it about this stuff.
So maybe start making logs like this, knowing that someday you’ll be able to do some neat stuff with them.
This is all very cool, especially training your own LLM on the data, but if I ran across a stranger in public self-narrating their own life I would absolutely be like “what the living fuck is this person doing?”
Well, I have to different solutions to that problem that I use:
Either works on its own, but together it’s quite effective.
I would probably think they’re an actor practicing a line, or recording for like a youtube video or some low budget film/tv or something, or some Vlogging type of shit.