History as a First-class Citizen

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crossposting my ethics comment here

Application Lifecycles

@natecull once made a similar comment on my history post. It is very valid, and I have a response to it, and yours too. Our understanding of accountability has been entirely oriented towards the mutable world, and not I/O. An example is: which implies that, now the user input and any derivative must be destroyed. We may have high ethical standards, but we must not assume the same of corporations. The requirement of destroying information has one weakness: nonexistential claims about informat…