No, I have several notebooks allocated for various types of importance - one for writing down everything, one in which I write down things which are relevant but not important long-term, and two in which I keep copies of the notes I need to keep. I just write it twice.

If you’re asking about official documents, then yes. I keep at least* two legalised copies of everything (always separate) and 5 generic photocopies of each document in case anyone needs it on file for whatever reason.

Again, these aren’t new arguments against storage environments, we’ve literally been doing bureaucracy for centuries.

Edit: to add, this is fretting over potentialities, I have lost precisely zero documents to water damage in three decades, so has my family for decades before that. Not saying it can’t happen, just saying it’s pretty easy to keep paper copies safe and usable for ridiculous amounts of time.

Same argument can be made about a hard drive, or a data tape, which is why I think we can all agree backups are vital in every type of archival action.

See, this is why I’m sticking with pen and paper for the really important stuff.

No offence to the apps themselves, I find them especially useful when I need to transfer info from one device to another. But I do not trust anything purely digital for long-term to permanent archiving, especially not Cloud solutions.

Also significantly more reliable in case said info need not see the light of day. Just sayin’.

Don’t forget, though, the Geth pretty much defended themselves without even having time to understand what was happening.

Imagine suddenly gaining both sentience and awareness, and the first thing which your creators and masters do is try to destroy you.

To drive this home even further, even the “evil” Geth who sided with the Reapers were essentially indoctrinated themselves. In ME2, Legion basically overwrites corrupted files with stable/baseline versions.

Serious question, at which point in their development do we start considering “beep-boop” jokes racist? Like, I’m dead serious.

Is it when they reach true sentience? Or is it just plain racist anyway, because it’s a joke which started as a mockery of fictional AI mannerisms?

I’m struggling to think of the movie which depicted this feeling perfectly, maybe there isn’t one and my brain’s just substituting for it.

It feels as though every day is more predictable than the last, every piece of news comes more as a ticking off the list than as a surprise development. I imagine this is a slice of Purgatory in a way, to know the ills expecting you and being served nothing but, with essentially no variability in occurrences.

This may be the first time when we’re not interacting with a Skinner box of a society, ffs, and it’s because THEY came back…

Edit: it’s not Groundhog Day, that one sees things unfolding the same way every time until the character intervenes, this feels like everything’s new, but always predicted.