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As a wee lad I was neurotic about losing information: reading about the Library of Alexanderia physically hurt, I’d lay awake at night crying in bed about th...

As a wee lad I was neurotic about losing information: reading about the Library of Alexanderia physically hurt, I’d lay awake at night crying in bed about the inevitable nostalgia I’d experience after growing up, and a frequent emotional state I’d refer to in my diaries (I’d write this in a red font, mind) was “burning libraries in my mind”. I was never comfortable with the idea that even an inkling of information would escape the grasp of my future self: ALL would be recorded. Muh childhood And so to the question “what are you tracking in your head?” I would answer “how many bits of informati

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