A user feeds an agent 20 years of digital traces to predict the rest of their life
shakoistsLog · x · 2026-07-26
A user says they are doing an out-of-sample prediction of their own life by giving an agent everything that existed at age 23, while hiding everything after that point.
The reply expands the joke into a striking experiment: the person has supposedly coalesced every digital fragment since 2004 — old computers, tweets, texts, 2008 IM logs, writing, photos, emails, YouTube viewing history, and financial data — and wants agents to infer their future from that frozen snapshot.
The attached image shows the agent’s guess: life likely turned out better than the 23-year-old feared, but much less linear and less grand than expected, with a career wandering across analytical fields and periods of boredom, burnout, or reinvention.
The post lands as both a meme and a real question about how much a model could infer from a person’s digital exhaust.
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