Yeah, that's the plot of the show. It turns out you don't really need to kill the person, but the company does it anyways because if they're dead IRL, they can't do productive labor and you can essentially turn their continued digital existence into a tax on their family.
They also kill the original person because there are major issues with the system and they have the ability to control your emotions and memories, so having someone else in the real world with contradictory ideas would ruin their scam.
Calling it now - it's an animated spyware application that performs Google searches, orders shit on Amazon and sings "A Bicycle Built for Two" in your dead loved one's voice.
Yeah, the show kinda surprised me. And with all the big companies shifting to metaverse, I think they'll probably just totally can it soon. It started in May of 2020 and still hasn't gotten a second season.
Like the whole thing is kinda uncanny with all the digital people asking their families to send them money for NFT Gucci handbags and stuff. I guess that was just starting when it was written, but it's definitely an almost perfect parody of the metaverse/NFT stuff.
I've heard a bunch of science fiction shorts with premises involving mind control. It's a central theme in Rainbows End. There was also a short story where an advertising techbro invents a mind control drug. The protagonist is a reporter trying to expose how evil and unethical he is, but the stinger is that he darts her right before she can expose him, then "marries" her. Super, super squick.
Yeah, that's the plot of the show. It turns out you don't really need to kill the person, but the company does it anyways because if they're dead IRL, they can't do productive labor and you can essentially turn their continued digital existence into a tax on their family.
They also kill the original person because there are major issues with the system and they have the ability to control your emotions and memories, so having someone else in the real world with contradictory ideas would ruin their scam.
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Calling it now - it's an animated spyware application that performs Google searches, orders shit on Amazon and sings "A Bicycle Built for Two" in your dead loved one's voice.
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Yeah, the show kinda surprised me. And with all the big companies shifting to metaverse, I think they'll probably just totally can it soon. It started in May of 2020 and still hasn't gotten a second season.
Like the whole thing is kinda uncanny with all the digital people asking their families to send them money for NFT Gucci handbags and stuff. I guess that was just starting when it was written, but it's definitely an almost perfect parody of the metaverse/NFT stuff.
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I've heard a bunch of science fiction shorts with premises involving mind control. It's a central theme in Rainbows End. There was also a short story where an advertising techbro invents a mind control drug. The protagonist is a reporter trying to expose how evil and unethical he is, but the stinger is that he darts her right before she can expose him, then "marries" her. Super, super squick.
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