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Seriously... the idea of living a quadrillion is hardly an extension of 100. You can still never go backward. You still need to plan your life. Death would still be a common occurrence. I would much MUCH rather live much longer. I don't hate my life at all.
At some point you will have heard all possible jokes. What is life without humor?
It would be really great to recreate loved ones after they have past in some sort of digital space. As I’ve gotten older, and my parents get older as well, I’ve been thinking more about what my life will be like in old age (and beyond too). I’ve also been thinking what I would want “heaven” to be. Eternal life doesn’t appeal to me much. Imagine living a quadrillion years. Even as a god, that would be miserable. That…
Was talking to someone 2 days ago, just died randomly, early 40's. It's trippy, I have data of this person's face eg. videos/base64 strings... it's eerie. Unanswered texts wondering what's wrong. My thinking is I was only exposed to a part of this person, won't be them fully if reproduced.
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If you tried to repro these results (including time & space constraints) using traditional photogrammetry, you would be sorely disappointed. Photogrammetry is great if you have a very solid object that is not shiny or translucent at all. You get a lot of surface color micro-detail and a bit of bumpy meso-detail. But, if something is fuzzy, hairy, or lacey or smokey you are straight-up out of luck. Don't even try. If…
Maybe NeRFs can be used as an intermediate step to reconstruct the scene, and then extract the surfaces and their materials to more conventional representations like meshes, textures, refraction index, etc. I guess the main benefit is that it fills in the undersampled areas in a scene, whether that's an occlusion, a reflection angle, or something else. My main problem with them is that it seems as if all the data is…
It would be really great to recreate loved ones after they have past in some sort of digital space. As I’ve gotten older, and my parents get older as well, I’ve been thinking more about what my life will be like in old age (and beyond too). I’ve also been thinking what I would want “heaven” to be. Eternal life doesn’t appeal to me much. Imagine living a quadrillion years. Even as a god, that would be miserable. That…
My gut reaction to 'recreating loved ones in VR' is that it would be torturous more than soothing. Once a person dies, they're gone. The world is different, and nothing will bring them back. Spending time with a simulacrum isn't really spending time with a loved one.
It would be really great to recreate loved ones after they have past in some sort of digital space. As I’ve gotten older, and my parents get older as well, I’ve been thinking more about what my life will be like in old age (and beyond too). I’ve also been thinking what I would want “heaven” to be. Eternal life doesn’t appeal to me much. Imagine living a quadrillion years. Even as a god, that would be miserable. That…
It would be really great to recreate loved ones after they have past in some sort of digital space. As I’ve gotten older, and my parents get older as well, I’ve been thinking more about what my life will be like in old age (and beyond too). I’ve also been thinking what I would want “heaven” to be. Eternal life doesn’t appeal to me much. Imagine living a quadrillion years. Even as a god, that would be miserable. That…
>Imagine living a quadrillion years. Even as a god, that would be miserable. This seems very subjective, I don't agree at all.
It would be really great to recreate loved ones after they have past in some sort of digital space. As I’ve gotten older, and my parents get older as well, I’ve been thinking more about what my life will be like in old age (and beyond too). I’ve also been thinking what I would want “heaven” to be. Eternal life doesn’t appeal to me much. Imagine living a quadrillion years. Even as a god, that would be miserable. That…
Upload is a pretty good series on Amazon Prime right now that explores that. It's both amazing and horrifying.
Tangent I wonder what happens to most people when they see innovation such as this. Over the years I have seen numerous mind-blowing AI achievement, which essentially feel like miracles. Yet literally after an hour I forget what I even saw. I don't find these innovations to have a lasting impression on me or on the internet except for the times when these solutions are released to the public for tinkering and they en…
Neural TTS is so good now it's being used to fake the original voice actors in video game mods.
If you have a graphics card which is unobtainable.