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Convert data to binary. Use Amazon Mechanical Turk API to create tasks for people to remember the index of each bit (the value of the task would be $0.01 for binary 0 and $0.02 for binary 1). And, for reading memory, a new task to input the index they remembered and the value they were paid.

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You'd have to factor in a ton of redundancy to account for the human bits who just got bored and wandered off.

Anyway, people would probably just start saving the bits on this computers after first job or two. Which would be an amusing result for being just a convoluted interface to a remote hard drive, but it's conceptually less interesting then actually using distributed human memory as a digital storage medium...

you could structure it such that the longer they sit there remembering the data, the more they get paid. When they want to leave, they enter what they remember and get paid.

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