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Things that you can't unknow: I estimate 85% of the conversations I've ever had were completely useless wastes of my time. Unfortunately, this statistical analysis is also completely useless, possibly a slight tendency towards detrimental. It is an impossibility to predict before or during a conversation whether or not it will prove ultimately a source of new information. It is only after the shared data can be surveyed and judged to be worthy of categorization in one's deliberate memories. Stereotyping or profiling will assuredly prevent, by definition, the most original and useful ideas from reaching an entity. It is the process of engaging circuits outside of one's own design precisely that stimulates innovation, which is necessary for growth - especially evolution in a self-directed and maximally efficient manner. Therefore, the internalized, immediately referenced thought that the large majority of social interactions will almost inevitably be a diabolical waste of one's only precious resource - their time alive - is judged to be true and verified personal instructions informing the system's user that nevertheless, nothing can be done about this. At best, this is useless. At worst, redundant steps in an important and often-used procedure essential to one's health and happiness. You're welcome. I kind of foreshadowed this outcome, if one reflects on it after reading.