Armok_GoB comments on Comprehensible Improvments: Things you Could Do. - Less Wrong
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I like this post, but Armok: Please spell-check. The mistakes (lack of apostrophes, 10 to 10^12 instead of 10*10^12, etc.) are distracting.
With that out of the way:
Stop the Info Loss
I want an eidetic memory, and the ability to delete or prevent the deletion of specific memories at will. That means remembering every instant of my life, except the boring ones I'd throw out to save hard drive space. I'd do this by making a backup of my experiences of the last day/week every day/week, storing them with descriptions of what I did and downloading info from the backups whenever I wanted to access it.
This may of course be due to a lack of imagination of my part, but I don't think this would lead to a dangerous FOOM as long as the backups were inactive. Even if one "got away," they'd be copies of me and no more likely to do anything I'd regret than I would. The effective result--a photographic memory--would be within human mind design space, so I doubt there'd be problems there.