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I often think of Speaker for the Dead. My parents died just as I was entering adulthood many years ago. They were both kind/accidental iconoclasts with lives t
by fellowniusmonk 1y ago
I often think of Speaker for the Dead.
My parents died just as I was entering adulthood many years ago. They were both kind/accidental iconoclasts with lives that were unusual to the tune of 1 in a billion, or really, discretely unique, like all people perhaps. They bridged eras, continents, cultural inertias, familial blendings.
I lost so much... everything really, when they died. I have so many questions I forgot to ask, so many things I forgot to write down.
People are important. Even people who go unnoticed can have weird and niche insights.
I think of ImageNet. People are far more important and their lives and insights far less uniform. We miss much by letting all these people go without hearing them, without trying to understand them.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoAl you can do it record what you recall about your parents — and record things about yourself for future generations.
- morgoths_bane 1y agoForgive me for not understanding, why do we need AI? Can't we use pen to paper or a tape recorder? What advantage does the AI bring here?
- alluro2 1y agoI believe it was meant to be "All you can..."
- JKCalhoun 1y agoOh wow, Freudian? Yeah, supposed to be "All".
- Legend2440 1y agoThere was an astronomy professor on YouTube that trained an LLM on everything he’d ever written (diaries, papers, notes, etc.) to try to make an interactive model of himself that you could talk to. There’s really not enough data in your notes to clone your entire personality, so it only halfway sounded like him. But it was an interesting experiment.
- lm28469 1y agoIt's funny how Black mirror episodes that fill me with dread are other people's technological dreams
- dano 1y agoSecond this. My father passed suddenly and the recordings we made a year before while looking at newly digitized family movies are a treasure. I get to hear his voice. Mom passed 30 years ago and I have some speeches she gave recorded, but it isn't the same. Here's a conversation outline from StoryCorps https://storycorps.org/participate/tips-for-a-great-conversation/ https://storycorps.org/participate/tips-for-a-great-conversa...
- jacquesm 1y agoI got to hear my dads voice courtesy of Youtube for the first time in decades and it was the weirdest experience, especially because that recording was so unlike the person that I knew in real life.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoReminding me of Poe's album, "Haunted" where she discovered a trove of cassettes from her father — many addressed to her (and she used small clips in the mixing of the album).