The idea of saving things and if it's worth it. I'm not sure where I entirely fall but I think there is a value in having things saved for the future.
https://rubenerd.com/is-it-worth-saving/
The author here comes to the same conclusion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42441609
The comments also seem to be supportive of this and I wonder if this is just the common view.
However saving too much might also cause issues as now you have to sift through so much to get any value. Especially in an era where digital content is just massive and now in the era of AI generated content, is it even valuable?
Do we really want to save what AI of 2022 generated. I can see why we would as we would to be able to compare that content with what the AI of 2035 can do. It might also be useful for other reasons as well.
My own personal stuff, is there any real value? Maybe a historian of the future will want to see what people were writing about and my blog here will be another data point on a graph somewhere. That would be cool but does it matter? I do try to save stuff that I consider important to other places besides my blog. My blog is in my eyes more likely to cease than something like GitHub and dev.to.
I guess my answer is yes, save the internet, let the data be forever. We can use AI to sift the data at a future date but we can't go back in time to get the data so better to have it than not.
This is actually tied to the AI generation of historical videos. They are cool but so goddamn fake. The creators claim it's more art than history and they want to inspire people but I think it is going to change how people see history and they will begin to think that the AI generated history is the real history. We already have the problem of victors writing the history books, now we're going to have a problem where the average person's idea of history is going to be history.