DanielLC comments on The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 18 October 2010 05:14:38AM 3 points [-]

The AI says "90% of all human children are stillborn, but humanity has evolved a forgetfulness mechanic to deal with the loss."

I find this one oddly believable. It would be interesting to write a story where people find out something like this after keeping better records. Perhaps some online email server has some problem making it so it doesn't delete anything, and the people using it give up on trying to destroy or ignore the mentions of pregnancy, and end up remembering.