[HN Gopher] Resurrecting loved ones as AI 'ghosts' could harm yo...
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       Resurrecting loved ones as AI 'ghosts' could harm your mental
       health
        
       Author : ZeidJ
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2024-02-27 21:04 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.newscientist.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.newscientist.com)
        
       | withinboredom wrote:
       | Death is part of life. I'm getting to the age where I need to
       | accept that my days are numbered by sheer senescence. My
       | grandparents are long gone, my wife's parents are long gone. It's
       | only a matter of time; the antithesis to life.
        
         | JohnFen wrote:
         | I'm on the tail end of my lifetime as well, and I hope that
         | when I go, those I leave behind will celebrate the good I
         | brought while I was here rather than mourn that my time has
         | ended.
         | 
         | That our lifespans are finite is, in my opinion, a good thing
         | to be embraced. That we die is what makes our time valuable and
         | precious. I do not fear or dread my death, although I get
         | nervous about the possibility that I may suffer on the way out.
         | 
         | I would be very saddened if anyone I leave behind felt
         | compelled to build a fake version of me in order to pretend, in
         | a way, that I am still with them. They would be doing
         | themselves a disservice and possibly even harm. I don't want my
         | existence to result in that.
        
       | KatyaV wrote:
       | And this comes as a surprise to whom?
        
         | hdhdhsjsbdh wrote:
         | Probably the myopic and philosophically illiterate tech
         | worshippers that would bring such a thing into existence in the
         | first place.
        
           | dartos wrote:
           | Ave deus mechanicus
        
       | nittanymount wrote:
       | someone knows what is the webarchive service? could not view this
       | page...
       | 
       | thanks
        
       | ViktorRay wrote:
       | There was a Black Mirror episode about this very concept I
       | believe.
       | 
       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
       | 
       | It's Black Mirror so naturally the episode was pretty disturbing
       | and dystopian.
        
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