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title: "Comment by Ahmet Özel on \"Why can many AI systems perform sophisticated inference yet still behave as if they continuously forget what they already know?\" | Hashnode"
description: "The question of what knowledge deserves to remain alive is the right framing, because useful memory also needs a deliberate forgetting policy. Persisting and re"
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Comment [Why can many AI systems perform sophisticated inference yet still behave as if they continuously forget what they already know?](https://hashnode.com/posts/why-can-many-ai-systems-perform-sophisticated-inference-yet-still-behave-as-if-they-continuously-forget-what-they-already-know/6a610cefd375b6ee90ba3476)

[Ahmet Özel](https://hashnode.com/@ahmetozel)

[Jul 25](https://hashnode.com/posts/why-can-many-ai-systems-perform-sophisticated-inference-yet-still-behave-as-if-they-continuously-forget-what-they-already-know/6a610cefd375b6ee90ba3476/comment/6a65393023cbd761ac7642c2)

The question of what knowledge deserves to remain alive is the right framing, because useful memory also needs a deliberate forgetting policy. Persisting and reusing state without provenance, freshness, and invalidation rules turns memory into an amplifier for stale decisions. For agents, I treat write, update, and delete policies as part of the memory architecture, not only the retrieval path.