I haven’t watched it. I don’t know how well she will cover the subject or how deep the rabbit hole she will venture.

All I know is she’s delightful and I sure as hell won’t read that bilge myself, so I’m looking forward to an entertaining summary.

Edit: I watched it. I had a good time.

  • jaschop@awful.systemsOPEnglish
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    27 days ago

    goofy shrugging

    be me, super genius autodidact

    be deeply moved by the prospect of defeating death with technology, write some sick prose about it because am eloquent as fuck

    proceed to punt this goal decades or centuries by contributing to a school of thought that justified a tech bubble which consumes tons of R&D resources for no apparent benefit and will bind further resources in the future to adapt to an aggravated climate crisis, and also by inspiring a slew of technofascists too dumb to tell the difference between tech that benefits mankind and tech that exploits and oppresses

    mein face when

    • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish
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      27 days ago

      >proceed to punt this goal decades or centuries by helping to justify a tech bubble which consumes tons of R&D resources for no apparent benefit and will bind further resources in the future to adapt to an aggravated climate crisis, and also inspiring a slew of technofascists too dumb to tell the difference between tech that benefits mankind and tech that exploits and oppresses

      Not to mention, the aforementioned bubble’s given us shit like some jackasses’ ghoulish (and failed) attempt to “revive” George Carlin, attempts to automate end-of-life care, “AI seances” designed to scam the grieving, and God-knows-what-else.

      So, the very concept of “defeating death with technology” has probably been thoroughly discredited as impossible, inherently ghoulish, or a combo of the two.

      • ShakingMyHead@awful.systemsEnglish
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        25 days ago

        To be frank, all seances are designed to scam the grieving, AI or otherwise. If AI threatens the psychic industry I say let them fight.