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The idea of someone AI-ifying me posthumously is gross, but deleting all record of me would be even worse.
by Retr0id 1y ago
The idea of someone AI-ifying me posthumously is gross, but deleting all record of me would be even worse.
- opdahl 1y agoInteresting. Why do you think that deleting all records of you would be worse?
- ttemPumpinRary 1y agoBecause that is our little claim to fame, to go down on history .ChatGpt who started this meme?
- Retr0id 1y ago"They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time."
- acheron 1y agoAnd then 4000 years later people start saying your name again, and find out what a bad copper merchant you were.
- anigbrowl 1y agoI collect Ea-nasir memes as a form of proxy revenge for his deceived customers.
- marcosdumay 1y agoYeah, he became famous for doing that too.
- FirmwareBurner 1y agoAll of us will be forgotten eventually after you great-grandkids forget about you. What's the point in trying to keep your name alive when you'll be too dead to care? Focus on the life you live not the one after your death.
- card_zero 1y agoWhy? Being dead is inconvenient, but I don't see why I should stop achieving things at that point. Indeed it might be a good time to start.
- rectang 1y agoWould you deny others their wish to have their data deleted?
- Retr0id 1y agoCan't say I was planning on it, no
- dr_dshiv 1y agoActually, do living persons have the right to die? That's really not firmly established legally — the state has been saying no to suicide for a long time. Not making a moral claim here, just pointing out that something that seems to be an individual right might not have strong legal precedence.
- scarface_74 1y agoAnd if you live in GA and are a medical brain dead, your family doesn’t even have the right to take you off of life support if you are pregnant and you must suffer… https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/07/nx-s1-5425384/georgia-anti-abortion-fetal-personhood-law-pregnant-woman-life-support https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/07/nx...
- rectang 1y agoAn excellent point. Compelling others to live no matter how great their pain or grim their prospects has much in common with compelling others to cede their likenesses after death no matter how much the usage might go against their wishes. In both cases, it's external collectivists demanding that an individual exist only for the benefit of other entities — either society at large, or private businesses.
- jeroenhd 1y ago> That's really not firmly established legally Depends on where you live. Where I live, that's a resounding "yes, if you're mentally well enough to make that decision". Mostly applies to old people, and there's a process to prevent letting anyone with depression kill themselves, but the legal definitions are all taken care of.
- echelon 1y agoYou don't get both. You want to be remembered? You'll have no control over what future technologies people have or use. Trying to impose conditions on our descendants is pointless, overbearing, and futile. There are billions of us here. The future will be preoccupied with itself, mostly. It would be a rare treat to be remembered at all. We're all ephemeral. Every picture, every memento -- everything will vanish within a few generations. Even our DNA gets washed out after about a dozen generations. It's over in a geologic blink of an eye.
- Retr0id 1y ago> You don't get both. That was my point, I guess I forgot we were on HN
- jfengel 1y agoI had been wondering about the philosophical ramifications of torturing a ChatGPT persona. (I'm surprised I haven't seen more of that.) Now we can do it to our enemies.