[HN Gopher] How to see the dead
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How to see the dead
Author : mailyk
Score : 65 points
Date : 2025-11-17 16:17 UTC (5 days ago)
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| neuroelectron wrote:
| Of course, by materializing her memories, they are re-
| establishing or strengthening the neural pathways that would
| otherwise wither away with time. It's not necessarily grief-
| dependent memories when she "revisits" her loved ones but over
| time, the illusion becomes a weird trap that she would grow more
| aware of, creating an uncanny valley-like situation.
|
| So not necessarily a "hell" but more like unneeded and
| distracting kitsch cluttering the shelves; turning your memories
| into cheap trinkets.
| bitwize wrote:
| "Oh, Chew, if only you could see what I have seen... with your
| eyes."
| mrandish wrote:
| Upvoted for perfectly on-point Blade Runner quote.
|
| (spoken by a Replicant who toured the universe to the Earth-
| bound creator of his synthetic eyes.)
| luxuryballs wrote:
| I thought this was real at first.
| delis-thumbs-7e wrote:
| Me too. It took me few paragraphs at least. The speed of
| progress is such and the description of the technology
| obfuscated enough that I honestly thought: "Wait, what? We can
| do what now?"
| chaostheory wrote:
| Of course, these days you just need a mixed reality face bucket
| like the Apple Vision Pro to do essentially the same thing
| AmbroseBierce wrote:
| It would help if you spend significant daily time looking at
| them through such devices while they are still alive, in the
| sense that it certainly would make it easier to trick your
| brain into thinking that nothing changed, that they are still
| around.
| bookofjoe wrote:
| I can't look at Vision Pro Immersive Video I shot of my former
| beloved (now deceased) cat. It's too painful.
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