Well, for one did you ever notice how people act differently in different situations? (for example among family, friends, work, acquaintances at the gym, or online) If you limit yourself to a single situation, there is not any person on earth that you could ‘reconstruct’ sufficiently well.
A minor example… I’m fairly sure you can make guesses about what kinds of expressions a person makes a lot from a few photos of their face. I’m not sure what else to point at to convey this intuition, but I seem to believe that behaviors in very different contexts leak information that’ll all become apparent with enough data.
I guess I can believe that there are probably a lot of people who don’t output enough content for this to work, maybe even among the users of this forum, but I don’t think it’s a large proportion of them.
What sorts of things, that you would want preserved, or that the future would find interesting, would not be captured by that?
Well, for one did you ever notice how people act differently in different situations? (for example among family, friends, work, acquaintances at the gym, or online) If you limit yourself to a single situation, there is not any person on earth that you could ‘reconstruct’ sufficiently well.
A minor example… I’m fairly sure you can make guesses about what kinds of expressions a person makes a lot from a few photos of their face. I’m not sure what else to point at to convey this intuition, but I seem to believe that behaviors in very different contexts leak information that’ll all become apparent with enough data.
I guess I can believe that there are probably a lot of people who don’t output enough content for this to work, maybe even among the users of this forum, but I don’t think it’s a large proportion of them.