Scoble: An AI that remembers everything but surfaces wrong things is noise
Scobleizer · x · 2026-09-06
Robert Scoble lays out what he actually wants from an AI assistant: surface the thing someone told you three months ago before a meeting, connect industry shifts to what you're building rather than just flagging them, and understand that a January obsession may be irrelevant now.
His core point: that's not a memory problem but a judgment problem—learning how priorities change, which people matter, when to interrupt, when to disappear. "An assistant that remembers everything but keeps surfacing the wrong things isn't an assistant. It's noise with a good memory." This expands his earlier argument that memory is the moat.
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