Leaving cell phones in the coffins put a whole new meaning to being a dead ringer. (From the time when people were sometimes buried alive and came to in their graves or people feared that could happen so a bell was place above ground with with a cord into the coffin).
Now AI simulacrums of the dear departed who somehow remain with us is macabre indeed. Dad died years ago but is still with us criticizing what we do or didn't do right. "If You only listened to me ... Mother is still here criticizing the daughter in law because she doesn't make meals the way her son likes, and doesn't keep a clean and tidy enough house. Or the dead spouse always going on about how the other spouse cheated on him or her. Matt Groenings "Life In Hell" and Gary Larson's Far Side comics couldn't come up with a better comic strip concept.
But just think how the funerary business guilted people into embalming, Coffins in weatherproof caskets, Maintaining expensive marble yards all because the Egyptians did it. We were also told cremation was wrong because Jesus would not be able to resurrect the dead on judgement day. Yet the same Bible says "From ashes to ashes, dust to dust".
Now we would burden the families to never ending contracts to maintain the AI of Grandma because you wouldn't want to see her unplugged and lost for all time, would you? That along with the fees to keep them cryogenically frozen until a cure for whatever killed them came around. No wonder some people say that living during the bronze age was probably one of the best times to live.
There must come a point where the unreality that so many people live in just stops working anymore. It stops providing the experience required. You hit the switch but the lights don't come on. Maybe we are seeing natural selection in real time. The blue hair will grow out. The piercing holes will close up and heal. Maybe the tattoos can be lasered away but the physic void left behind will force us to reopen the psychiatric hospitals big time.
A.I. rights, the next port of call for the thought deficient ship of ghouls, and in the now oft spoke words of my buddy Paul, “what a fuckin Carry-on!” Cheers Tom excellent article. 👍👍👍
Leaving cell phones in the coffins put a whole new meaning to being a dead ringer. (From the time when people were sometimes buried alive and came to in their graves or people feared that could happen so a bell was place above ground with with a cord into the coffin).
Now AI simulacrums of the dear departed who somehow remain with us is macabre indeed. Dad died years ago but is still with us criticizing what we do or didn't do right. "If You only listened to me ... Mother is still here criticizing the daughter in law because she doesn't make meals the way her son likes, and doesn't keep a clean and tidy enough house. Or the dead spouse always going on about how the other spouse cheated on him or her. Matt Groenings "Life In Hell" and Gary Larson's Far Side comics couldn't come up with a better comic strip concept.
But just think how the funerary business guilted people into embalming, Coffins in weatherproof caskets, Maintaining expensive marble yards all because the Egyptians did it. We were also told cremation was wrong because Jesus would not be able to resurrect the dead on judgement day. Yet the same Bible says "From ashes to ashes, dust to dust".
Now we would burden the families to never ending contracts to maintain the AI of Grandma because you wouldn't want to see her unplugged and lost for all time, would you? That along with the fees to keep them cryogenically frozen until a cure for whatever killed them came around. No wonder some people say that living during the bronze age was probably one of the best times to live.
There must come a point where the unreality that so many people live in just stops working anymore. It stops providing the experience required. You hit the switch but the lights don't come on. Maybe we are seeing natural selection in real time. The blue hair will grow out. The piercing holes will close up and heal. Maybe the tattoos can be lasered away but the physic void left behind will force us to reopen the psychiatric hospitals big time.
You would think. But all I see are mostly NPC Meat Heads out there existing exclusively through their devices.
Further illustration of the demented minds of the technocrats. Aimed at the meat suits.
A.I. rights, the next port of call for the thought deficient ship of ghouls, and in the now oft spoke words of my buddy Paul, “what a fuckin Carry-on!” Cheers Tom excellent article. 👍👍👍