AI memory needs pruning and forgetting — and RSI could bring selective amnesia
yangyi · x · 2026-11-09
The author argues AI memory is barely understood yet, and sketches a neuroscience-inspired thesis: once AI reaches RSI and develops emotions, memories will carry emotional weight like humans'. Memory fragments must be pruned or storage keeps ballooning (Claude's "dreaming" doesn't prune yet), and an emotional AI might deliberately delete bad memories — selective amnesia. He likens context-window pruning to REM-sleep synaptic pruning, and frames agent memory resets as a form of programmed death needed for systems to keep evolving.
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