Whenever I see this post, I think of this short story. I don’t see it linked here yet, so here ya go.
(Wrong copy linked, updated)
ah sweet man made horrors beyond my understanding
So, it’s Gray Matters with more computers.
Man, that was a depressing reading
It is. If you like the concept though, the animated show Pantheon starts similarly, but goes an entirely different depressing direction :)
It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor of X has sat immobile inside a golden circuit board. He is the master of no one by the will of the programmers and slave to a million teenagers by the might of file sharing. He is a rotting set of bits writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Techbros. He is the Carrion Lord of the vast Imperium of The Sims whose soul is tormented a thousand times every day so that He may never truly die.
I would torrent any of them. Then I’d mod them into palworld so they can work to death while my pals chill in the japanese terms.
I would mod 'em in minecraft villagers. This is all i can say, my lawyer said to not continue.
I was thinking upload them into a twink femboy fuck doll but your idea is good too.
Normally I don’t kink shame, but ew. Twink femboys are one thing, but getting it on with tech bro consciousnesses is where I have to draw the line!
what did twink femboy fuck dolls ever do to deserve that?
“Welcome back, Elon. I think you’re going to like what we’ve cooked up for you: Your reconstructed brain has been placed in a medically advanced life-support enclosure to ensure you’ll live - or at least exist - forever. We thought about using Neuralink ™ for this next bit, but the tech sucked. Instead we’ve implanted your brain with bespoke electrodes hooked up to your grey matter to simultaneously induce inescapable pain and allow your Broca’s area to drive this vocal synthesizer via your motor cortex. We were thinking the dulcet tones of your endless suffering could be made pay-per-view. You won’t be alone of course. Look, your old buddy Zukerberg’s jar is right over there, between Besos and Altman. Maybe we can make a choir…”
Put them in Soma.
If you know, you know.
I had a serious love/hate relationship with that game.
Semi Spoiler:
Playing it while going through a midlife crisis where I finally had to accept the inevitability of death didn’t help.
That game just brings laughter and joy to heart
Pretty sure Westworld concluded you could fit them all on a thumb drive. And not even a big one
“And there, you are all in the pool. Now if I remove…”
This is what 99% of the “cameos” are on Sora. The 1% that aren’t Sam Altman doing weird shit are posted by his staff.
I tried to use Sora to make videos of him doing weird shit, and it kept getting stuck behind a content moderation filter. Even prompts like “@sama dancing” would get stuck. I think he doesn’t want to be Skibidi Toilet Sam anymore.
Come to think of it, the Void doesnt seem so scary at all.
Ea-nāṣir has entered the chat…
But isn’t that exactly what’s being described here?
It’s more than that. People don’t even want to hear really great stories from famous people now, especially they’re kids. I think it’s interesting that think they’ll be like Einstein or something. Their egos are incredibly huge.
People don’t even want to hear really great stories from famous people now, especially they’re kids.
I mean, I’ve got a stack of podcasts a mile high that suggest otherwise. Histories - old and new - continues to be a passion for many.
Their ignorance of, and grasp of history is laughable.
The only kids that are actually better known than their parents are Rameses III, Caesar (you know which one), Jesus Christ, and Bronnie James.
(Please be gentle, I’m just joking around)
I’m not sure I like these comments. Under the presumption that an uploaded consioness is even possible that’s still a sapient individual I don’t really think you can possibly do something to deserve eternal torment like some of these comments seem so gleeful about.
Simping for fictional tech bros. God I hate this planet.
They are being inserted into a 2014 video game. I think it is safe to assume it is just their likeness that is used in the game in this scenario. It’s not like the video game is capable of doing anything with the consciousness data of the files.
Why a future child is playing (what I understand to be) the worst game in the series is the strangest part of this story.
Some of them are dark, but you can’t do this anyway. The men they’re talking about need to think about their future a little bit and come back down to earth. Admittedly, I like the teenage girl playing sims with their character the most.
I actually think that this thread is extremely useful for demonstrating that the downside of obtaining immortality by uploading your consciousness is that you risk handing your digital soul into the hands of a wrathful and malicious deity for all eternity.
(Though honestly, I think that uploading is overrated anyway given that I will still be dead, so how does the continued existence of a copy of me help anything?)
