Ode "Delete"
In Azimov's stories, artificial intelligence enslaves humanity, guided by the laws of robotics. They say that otherwise mankind will ruin itself, which the AI ​​cannot allow by its nature (see the film “I Am a Robot”).
Raskin paraphrased the first law of robotics as follows: "The computer cannot harm the user's data or by its inaction to allow the user's data to be harmed." The developers of human-computer interfaces are trying to bring this law to life as much as possible. But this law can also turn against humanity.
The desire of developers to prevent data loss leads to the fact that the user is in every way protected from operations that entail irretrievable destruction of information. Let's keep everything forever, just to not suddenly remove anything important! All versions, all letters, all drafts, all conversations - the more information we store, the better! For example, Google on the invitation page in Gmail explicitly declares: “you need to delete another message”.
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Instead, modern interfaces offer us the tools to search for the necessary information in those mountains of slag, which inevitably form as a result of the “we never delete anything else” policy. Do you believe that full-text search, tags, faceted classification and other fashionable things now will save us after a few years of such a life? What Hercules will take then to clean these Augean stables?
It's not too late, think about the saving Delete button! Take responsibility for the risk of deleting important information and clean up your digital storage! Otherwise, tomorrow it will not be your storage - you just will not be able to capture his gaze.
Raskin paraphrased the first law of robotics as follows: "The computer cannot harm the user's data or by its inaction to allow the user's data to be harmed." The developers of human-computer interfaces are trying to bring this law to life as much as possible. But this law can also turn against humanity.
The desire of developers to prevent data loss leads to the fact that the user is in every way protected from operations that entail irretrievable destruction of information. Let's keep everything forever, just to not suddenly remove anything important! All versions, all letters, all drafts, all conversations - the more information we store, the better! For example, Google on the invitation page in Gmail explicitly declares: “you need to delete another message”.
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Instead, modern interfaces offer us the tools to search for the necessary information in those mountains of slag, which inevitably form as a result of the “we never delete anything else” policy. Do you believe that full-text search, tags, faceted classification and other fashionable things now will save us after a few years of such a life? What Hercules will take then to clean these Augean stables?
It's not too late, think about the saving Delete button! Take responsibility for the risk of deleting important information and clean up your digital storage! Otherwise, tomorrow it will not be your storage - you just will not be able to capture his gaze.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/14755/
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