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

[XXxxXXTwoXXxxXX]

just let me die

[Zarrov]

Fortunately you did, but it appears that those guys were able to get rights to your digital copy, or maybe you selled it to them. Copy is a copy, it actually does not think, but still it is unethical on many levels. Its innovative form of slavery.

[Zarrov]

So, lets go.First thing:OK, so the guy is dead.Permanently.And here is his copy.How nice and unethical,but at least he is separate being with dignity and... oookay, so you forced him to calm down by manipulating his state.But maybe I am overreacting. Lets see.OK, so he can have normal liiii...whaaa...?His preferences are CHANGED to suit needs of some companies? whata fuu...? Wait what, so the poor little guy can be rendered senteincless because of frekaing server overload?! Death seems better.

[twistedf4te]

You should watch the documentary "The Century of Self: The Great Happiness Machines"

[Grizzuli]

Good thing current eccenomics will be gone by the time such technology exists (if it ever will exist).

[Elvarien]

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

[harrier331]

well there is a small possibility that everything we know of is an actual computer simulation but there is also trillions of other possibility's

[harrier331]

its about the future it has been said many a time that in the future human minds or 'souls' will be able to be uploaded to cybernetics or 'computers' which is known as the singularity the earliest possible time for the singularity to possibly happen is from 5 to 100 years. this video is showing what could happen in the future when binding the human 'soul' with machines is possible. my personal view on this being a possibility is that it is terrifying

[harrier331]

for me the music and voice makes it scarier

[Luis Diaz]

What is this all about..