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Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers (2012) [video]
- fxj 3y agowas that the idea of upload? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upload_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upload_(TV_series)
- reubenmorais 3y agoIf you liked this, you might like the novel Permutation City by Greg Egan.
- alexpotato 3y agoFall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson has aspects of "who pays for the digital afterlife and who gets to control it?" as well.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoAnd Surface Detail for a pretty gruesome depiction of what happens if you do a public-private partnership for hell.
- grammarxcore 3y agoI really struggled to get into this; I’ve had several people recommend it. How far do you think it’s important to read before deciding it’s not for me?
- qup 3y agoIt's not important for you to read it at all. Skip it.
- amanaplanacanal 3y agoI usually like Stephenson quite a bit, but I couldn’t get through this one either.
- reubenmorais 3y agoI just quickly paged through it to try to answer this. I'd say peak engagement for me when I couldn't wait to find out what happened next was around 60% of the way in, but I was fully engaged from the beginning, I read it over 2 days. I'd support qup's comment, there's too many good books in the world to drudge your way through a book that doesn't click :)
- grammarxcore 3y agoI think that’s fair! I am currently in a phase where I’m struggling to find something to pull my interest. I often reevaluate things I’ve put down before if the right commentary pulls me back in. I might give it another shot to see if I can hit that mark. Thanks for the insight!
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoIt wasn't Egan's best, from a storytelling perspective, but the ideas were juicy enough to keep me engaged.
- newswasboring 3y agoYou also might like the later Bobiverse books.
- b112 3y agoReally like the authors style. He has a new book too.
- EwanG 3y agoMade 11 years ago, still holds up (unfortunately).
- ChatGTP 3y agoLet’s face it, this is everything Silicon Valley has ever wanted. Just needs more targeted advertising and AI and it’s current.
- SkeuomorphicBee 3y agoI'd like to also recommend his other work of speculative fiction: The Artificial Intelligence That Deleted A Century https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlxuQ7tPgQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlxuQ7tPgQ It is a great intersection of copyright maximalism and the dangers of making general purpose AIs without proper care in developing their goal function.
- richardwhiuk 3y agoSingle Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4GB_NDU43Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4GB_NDU43Q is another, different topic, but still worth watching.
- Daffodils 3y agoThis is superb, very Black Mirror-esque.
- tgv 3y agoIt's too far fetched and too flimsily executed, IMO. It's more of a parody of the paperclip factory than a serious warning against unleashed AIs.
- matmann2001 3y agoReminded me of the Amazon show called Upload. Sort of a lighter, more humorous take than Black Mirror, but the darker philosophical complexities still surface regularly.
- 2-718-281-828 3y agoDon't forget to check out this gem: https://youtu.be/O2RIvJ1U7RE?t=153 https://youtu.be/O2RIvJ1U7RE?t=153 "EctoLife: The World’s First Artificial Womb Facility"
- disqard 3y agoMaybe it's just me, but this video looked like dystopian satire... did anyone else view it that way? It reminded me of Keiichi Masuda's "Hyper Reality": https://youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs https://youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs
- rootsudo 3y ago"3,553,858 views 11 years ago." Still feels quite valid and the future we're heading towards.
- mitchdoogle 3y agoIt's an interesting idea but is it scary? Any such "consciousness" existing in a digital realm is a copy and so the real organic you would never experience these things
- phone8675309 3y agoWhy does this matter given that you would still perceive things as if it were were still in your real and organic state?
- PUSH_AX 3y ago> you A fascinating and complex concept there.
- phone8675309 3y agoPerhaps it is if you want to get lost in the philosophical implications. Practically, you would perceive exactly as you did while alive.
- PUSH_AX 3y ago> Practically, you would perceive exactly as you did while alive. Who would? Me? I'm dead at this point.
- pixl97 3y agoActually, you die every night and I just load the copy of your mind I took of you right after you fell asleep and loaded it on a copy of your body. You're old dead body gets incinerated. You've been reborn every day and have never noticed the difference.
- Filligree 3y agoWell, stop replicating the wear and tear then!
- spdustin 3y agoThis reminds me of “The Upload”, a comedy series on Amazon Prime, where your digital consciousness is uploaded to a commercial cloud when you die, to live on in a digital utopia. A utopia with IAPs, low-data cap slums, etc. Edit: in fact, “The Upload” almost seems like it came directly from this short.
- midhhhthrow 3y agoThe copyrights by gosh 18k per month. Either fiat has continued its crash or their overcharging for copyrights. It’s a disaster that these things exist quite as long as they do
- phone8675309 3y agoNever underestimate how much companies gouge a captive audience.
- bragr 3y agoI think you are underestimating how much synchronization licenses cost.
- IndigoIncognito 3y agoThis is a cult classic
- hobo_mark 3y agoObligatory link to the popular "Lena" short form novel on the same topic: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
- FartyMcFarter 3y agoThat's definitely worth a read, although I'm not sure it's the same topic. ROT13'd, contains spoilers: Gung fgbel vf zber bs n serr sbe nyy, jurer crbcyr qb nalguvat naq rirelguvat gb na hcybnqrq uhzna.
- 1970-01-01 3y agoHow do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.
- pallas_athena 3y ago-- The Matrix (1999)
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- nico 3y agoNice username, the beginning of time
- MichaelMoser123 3y agothe Androids in "Do Androids dream of electric sheep" by Philip K Dick also make things up, just like an LLM. The book calls this "false memories", where we call it "hallucinations"...
- classified 3y agoAt over 10 years of age, it's still totally accurate. Permadeath is the only way to escape advertisers and copyright hoarders.
- joshuaheard 3y agoWhy blame lawyers? Lawyers apply the laws. If you don't like the laws, change them.
- oatmeal1 3y agoReminds me of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEEBE7_-aMM&list=PLD3WAy9LRI5PWuz-O7cw0DrAcAkbB3xeD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEEBE7_-aMM&list=PLD3WAy9LRI...
- mock-possum 3y agonot really sure what lawyers have to do with this
- slaymaker1907 3y agoAfter seeing the current wave of AI, the "restricted mental activities" makes me think such a program would prohibit sexual fantasies and other NSFW thoughts.
- midhhhthrow 3y agoTo be clear, it wasn’t ruined by lawyers. It was ruined by copyright laws
- adave 3y agoI'd recommend watching Upload after this, based on this exact concept just not as good as the video, still pretty realistic.