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ReadMultiplex.com: Nearly 40% of Webpages That Existed in 2013 Are Just Gone. AI was trained mostly on the parts of the internet that were easy to monetize..

B2Upper-intermediateJuly 21, 202641 min

They used to say the Internet never forgets. This was a neive lie. It is being erased by negligence and on purpose. Dead Internet Theory Was Not a Prophecy. It Was an Early Warning We Mostly Ignored. Now We Are Raising the Amnesia Generation. The truth is paywalled and the lies are free. Most of the Internet is already gone and some it was the highest quality, high protein data. What is left is a high percentage of only the junk, nihilist, intellectually empty postings on social media, I call Internet sewage. But the beautiful long thought, deep thinking...

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You know, usually when we talk about history, there is this very comforting assumption of permanence. Right, like geology or something. Exactly, like geology. You dig into the earth, you find a fossil, and the paleontologist just points at it and says, you know, there it is, a record in stone.

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Because it's physical, it's tangible. It requires absolutely zero electricity to just continue existing on a shelf. Right, carved in rock or inked on parchment. It feels safe.

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But then, and this is what we're getting into today, you step into the world of our modern digital memory. Oh boy, yeah. And suddenly that stone tablet is actually made of, like, dry sand. That is a very act way to put it.

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