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I mean just an example:

Step 1: Commit murder
Step 2: Destroy evidence
Step 3: Delete memory of you committing the murder
Step 4: Live guilt free
Step 5: Profit?

Profession Sleeper Assassin

  • festus@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    12 days ago
    • You’d have a lot of scams / lies where someone is accused of doing something they don’t remember doing, they wouldn’t know whether they did it, and third parties wouldn’t be able to evaluate reactions / cross examine the accused.
    • You’d have large corporations demanding that ex-employees forget everything proprietary, even if that would prevent you from building up skills in your career.
  • emb@lemmy.world
    5·
    13 days ago

    I don’t think I’d personally have much use for it, at least so far.

    But I see it going dark places. If people figured out how to delete their own, that’s one step away from authorities or even just criminals being able to rewrite other people’s realities.

  • stoly@lemmy.world
    5·
    12 days ago

    You’d have a lot of people erasing their trauma and then not understanding why they do or feel a certain way about things.

  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world
    4·
    13 days ago

    Delete my memories of everything pre-2016.

    I feel like it would be easier to live in this nightmare if I didn’t remember a relatively stable, functioning world.

  • Harmonious@lemmy.world
    4·
    13 days ago

    There is some horrible shit in my past that I’d definately get rid of. But, besides that gloomy sentiment, I’d use it to experience my favorite movies, games, and books for the first time again. Like seeing Whiterun for the first time or seeing the citadel for the first time.

  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
    3·
    13 days ago

    Based on the other comments, I wonder…

    If we could re-read, re-watch, or re-play our favorite media over again for the “first time”, we might consume significantly less media.

    Why try something new that statistically isn’t likely to be the GOAT when you can guarantee an awesome experience with something you know, because you already know it’s great?

    I can imagine someone who only replays one game repeatedly for decades, only watches one or two movies over and over, only reads one book or series again and again, decade after decade.

    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
      2·
      13 days ago

      I would be very weary of doing that, some of my favorite media was good because of the circumstances I was in when I first consumed it.

      One such example for me is Metal Gear Solid, a lot of what made that game so special for me would not be the same today, some examples:

      • Controls were good back then, but today they would be very bad.
      • I didn’t spoke English back then, so a lot was trial and error until I found a version in Spanish, and then I loved the way the game tells you what to do (by radio calls) but that would be very annoying today
      • There’s one part that it needs you to look at her physical game box, which wouldn’t be a thing nowadays.
      • Psycho mantis, all of it, but namely:
        • He named other games I played (by reading my memory card, which is not a thing anymore)
        • He made my controller move by itself (nowadays everyone knows controllers vibrate, I sure didn’t back then)
        • I needed to plug my controller to the second slot (controllers no longer have slots now)
      • At the time I liked the story, nowadays I think I would roll my eyes to lots of it.

      And just like that I feel that every media I liked might have lots of stuff that depends on the situation I consumed it originally.

    • remotelove@lemmy.ca
      3·
      13 days ago

      Booze.

      I have huge chunks of memories missing and that ain’t exactly a bad thing for my older, and sober, self. (Sometimes I still get flashbacks of blurry memories and it is very anxiety inducing. Booze memories are weird and were written to some corrupt cells or something that only pop back up under strange conditions.)