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I posted this comment five days ago. It seems like audio indexing and searching might be the next big thing.

> I've been wanting to make something like this for a while. Really nice product you have! I think this kind of service will really take off in the future. Imagine having an app that constantly records everything and allows you to search it later. Questions like "What did James tell me last November about traveling to Europe?". It would also eliminate hearsay, since you would no longer have to trust one person's word against another — you could simply search the transcript of that moment in the past. In the very long run, I almost wonder if such a tool would make lying obsolete.

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I'm Noah, one of the founders. I also think lifelogging will be common in the future because it's becoming easier to record everything and the benefits of having that dataset are also increasing (that's where we come in) You're correct that lying could become obsolete. It could be sort of like the changes brought on by the Information Age, where now it's pointless to argue over truths that are the public domain (since we can just look up the fact whenever we need). It would extend that to private life.

Have you seen "The Entire History of You" episode of Black Mirror?

It's one of our favorites :) I don't think it would be so bad to record our lives. We would be more efficient scientists, journalists--explorers of information. We could focus on the here and now instead of taking notes.

Or we would be stuck focusing on the best [and the worst] of past because it's persistent, like in the episode.

Reliving memories seems like a much more powerful drug when streamed directly to your retina just as you experienced it.

I'm pretty sure it requires a whole other level of nostalgia to be immersed and get lost in transcribed texts of the audio of an event.

Not that I'm saying the latter is what the tech will remain like, but at least at first that's what it will probably look like.

This story by Ted Chiang [1] is an examination of exactly the future you describe. Forget lying to others, this could prevent our leaky, revisionist, memories from lying to ourselves.

[1] https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_o...

Relevent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10163666

This is awesome

That's terrifying. Making lying obsolete is not worth having everything I do recorded.

Good way to waste your battery.

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