Saturday, June 13, 2026 | blog.wahdany.eu

If I’m going to be happy anywhere,
Or achieve greatness anywhere,
Or learn true secrets anywhere,
Or save the world anywhere,
Or feel strongly anywhere,
Or help people anywhere,
I may as well do it in reality.

(originally from the book Rationality: From AI to Zombies)

— Eliezer Yudkowsky , Elizier talks about how we assume that if we were in an alternate universe, e.g., with magic, we'd study magic and become heroes . But in that universe, magic would be real. So, it would probably lose its excitement and be just as mundane as what reality offers. So if you imagine yourself a hero in that alternate universe, why not be it in this one?

I wondered how long Claude Incognito chats are accessible. I noticed that even after the chat disappears from the web interface, you can still access it, e.g., if you still have a notification on your phone pertaining to an incognito chat. Anthropic reserves the right to store these for 30 days, but it seems you lose access to them somewhere a few hours after the last interaction to a few days (<5). I don’t know if that means they delete the chats early or just move them to a system that you can’t access as a user.

Overall, I don’t really feel safe enough in the self-regulatory sense to explore private topics in API chats, even ZDR I’m not sure would make me feel safe enough. And similar to how mass scanning of private communication undermines prevents free personal development, we need a true trustworthy ZDR-type or local AI that we can truly trust to not surveil us.

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