Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers

http://tomscott.com - Or: what you see when you die.

If you liked this, you may also enjoy two novels that provided inspiration for it: Jim Munroe's Everyone in Silico, where I first found the idea of a corporate-sponsored afterlife; and Rudy Rucker's trippy Postsingular, which introduced me to the horrifying idea of consciousness slums.

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[flannelization]

This should really scare me....but the nice voice and music is so calming that I'm sort of okay with it -- that's what freaks me out

[Fylk]

And that's why I'm opensource.

[KiwiStalk]

Pyramid scheme from hell?

[Zarrov]

No, the video tells you at the beginning that you are dead. Even assuming that upload means having the same real quality as before (which is not true, such software is not equal to mind and does not think as brain does) your exsistence has ended and what we have here is a copy.

[thevoiceofthelost]

this would suck but be funny as hell at the same time

[SonOfNye]

That's all it is now.

[SonOfNye]

Ya, it kind of does.

[MrBitWarrior]

 consciousness has been uploaded into a computer does not mean you still live...

[Annarcho Wookie]

I think you didn't listen to the first part of the video, his consciousness has been uploaded into a computer

[Cory Reed]

Whos to say this is what will happen?

[TheSickness1001]

This is cool, but what is the point of advertising to dead people, it's not like they can buy your products.

[Andrew Lepperd]

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