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cue my dystopian paranoia self: in a few short years technology like this will enable the effortless creation of a perfect, stylish, witty video of each and eve
by marstall 4y ago
cue my dystopian paranoia self: in a few short years technology like this will enable the effortless creation of a perfect, stylish, witty video of each and every day of your life, shot and edited in complete autonomy.
Which shows you at your best.
And expresses none of your fears, anxieties, inelegancies, loneliness, family trauma, time wasting or thoughtless cruelty.
Fast forward another nanosecond in the singularity. Devices like this camera will connect to the internet & ingest your personal timeline. They will respond by themselves to your friends' posts, mimicking their trends, one-upping their flexes, out-cooling them in a constantly accelerating arms race.
Our role in this algorithmic glammering will shrink to nothing as deepfakes expand in scope and become so much interesting than reality.
in the end our bodies will become irrelevant, as we watch our "selves" and our "friends" enact reality in a second, much better, universe.
- cupofpython 4y agoand actual reality will have world peace* *all disturbances automatically nullified** immediately **nullification may include death
- the__alchemist 4y agoWhat do you mean by that?
- cupofpython 4y agoif people care more about the imagined world than the real world to the degree described in the comment i replied to, then there is no need for our real bodies to actually do anything other than exist. We only need imagine what we'd like to identify with, and the system will handle the rest. We could each be the supreme leader of our own world as far as we can observe A bunch of bodies existing in reality with minimal real-world activity would be a form of peace. Real world activity would be a disruption to that peace, and also unobservable to the imagined world since all content is mediated. So anytime a persons behavior does not fit into the imagined world system, they could be killed and no one would care or even know. Maybe everybody is just told that person had a heart attack or whatever. it's akin to the dangers of not having a free press but with all of those dangers hyper-industrialized
- woozyolliew 4y agoPlus a day out to the park has become even more of a buzzy plastic hellscape.
- notjulianjaynes 4y agoA drone with the battery life to be able to 24/7 document my > fears, anxieties, inelegancies, loneliness, family trauma, time wasting or thoughtless cruelty would be, to put it lightly, a miracle.