Memory
AI memory and human memory are not the same kind of thing, and treating them as one will mislead you. These essays cover what each kind of memory is for, why more memory can make a system worse, and what should be allowed to keep shaping future answers.
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What Should Be Allowed to Become Memory?
You can move your ChatGPT memory to Claude, and that raises the question nobody asks: what should have been allowed to become memory in the first place? On promotion as the real boundary, forgetting by design, and why a personal memory you cannot take with you is not yours.
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Down the memory river with AI
Why does ChatGPT forget your context, your instructions, the thing you told it ten messages ago? Because AI memory and human memory are not the same kind of thing. A builder's field notes on what each kind of memory is for, and why giving an AI more memory can make it worse.