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Now imagine a future technology where you could undergo some hypnosis / gaslighting treatment to forget you even hired this person. I.e. pay a lot of money in
by avar 9y ago
Now imagine a future technology where you could undergo some hypnosis / gaslighting treatment to forget you even hired this person.
I.e. pay a lot of money in advance, it's invested and the actor gets paid from the interest. You undergo memory treatment, and now your mother who you see once a week is real as far as you know, but really she's an actor you hired years back because your actual mother died.
- thatcat 9y ago>You undergo memory treatment, and now your mother who you see once a week is real as far as you know, but really she's an actor Sounds like a sort of reverse Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; things could get really awkward and confusing when you end up having partial memories. But also, possibly a brilliant way to fund nursing homes/increase visitation.
- microcolonel 9y ago> things could get really awkward and confusing when you end up having partial memories. All memories are partial.
- megous 9y agoMemories are modified on retrieval and colored by current emotional state and ideas (and vice versa :)). So they're not even partial. They're messy re-imaginations of past re-imaginations.
- woodrowbarlow 9y agoread-modify-write
- malloryerik 9y agoYes, I was thinking that this should be a Charlie Kaufman movie, or that it's like a Charlie Kaufman movie come to life. And it's like the opposite of Darth Vader. "Luke, I'm not you true father, I'm a member of the Family Romance corporation."
- thanatropism 9y agoLook up the movie _Synecdoche_, where a theater production about the producing of a theater production (about... (about... )...) starts recursively eating real life.
- mrSugar 9y agoThis was explored (all the way to its grim dystopian conclusion) in tv series Dollhouse. Might want to check it out.
- walterbell 9y agoWestWorld too.
- bringtheaction 9y agoSpoiler ahead In season 1 of the modern adaption of Westworld it's the robot actors that don't know they are not real. The customers know it's not real. If anything else happens in the books or the movies or other series I don't want to know.
- walterbell 9y agoEmployees also ambiguous.
- amiga-workbench 9y agoAt least one of the employees is a host, the one played by Elon Musk's ex wife.
- tgb 9y agoI only watched the first season, but wasn't it the reverse of the suggestion?
- arbuge 9y agoYou might begin to suspect all your close friends are really just paid actors if that became possible...
- Fuxy 9y agoThere is no way another person doesn't get emotionally invested in their role the only difference is your paying them to put up with your shit and pretend to be your ideal one. That's a pretty bad deal for both to be honest the client gets a fake they may even fool themselves is real (as they did) and he basically goes through all the bad parts of a relationships without being able to complain. I kind of agree with faking it to keep up appearances like fake weddings for a lesbian daughter or a fake father so the school doesn't complain about something that is none of their business to begin with since Japanese society is the way it is but long term fake boyfriends and the like can't be healthy. Well maybe some people are ok leading a fake life but personally if I have a void in my life that motivates me to fill it instead of patching it with a temporary stop gap. It's the same reason I fix the cause of bugs in software not patch the symptoms they create. If I didn't do that I wouldn't be much of software developer.
- PakG1 9y agohe basically goes through all the bad parts of a relationships without being able to complain. Isn't that why the service provider gets paid? I believe the service provider knows that this is the deal.
- Fuxy 9y agoHe definitely knows it's the customer that tends to forget weather intentionally or unintentionally. At the end of the day it's bad for both parties even if they don't realise it I mean he did say he doesn't want a family because of all the shit he puts up faking it although he framed it more politely. Because of his work he thinks that all families are like the ones he pretends to be a part of but is that really true? You choose your partner but not your customer so it's not the same and a important distinction.
- philsnow 9y agoWithout going into too much detail, Oldboy [0] has a bit that reminds me of this. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldboy_(2003_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldboy_(2003_film) , I haven't seen the 2013 remake
- urs2102 9y agoThis would make an incredible Black Mirror episode.
- nocoder 9y agoI was thinking the same thing. At first instance it reminded me of "Be right back" episode
- Brinsby 9y agoisnt that kind of the premise of Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind?
- kurthr 9y agoAnd to prevent further awkwardness, the acting company would need insurance to pay for a replacement actor, if the original actor playing your mother died... it's turtles all the way down!
- avar 9y agoNo, your wife unaware that you'd hired a fake mother will hire a fake you when you die least it break your geriatric mother's heart. Now you'll have two actors unknowingly interacting in perpetuity.
- wingworks 9y agoSounds very similar to what the Dollhouse TV series was about.