Make up a guy

Post by ghaff » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 2:14 PM UTC

blinding-streak wrote: post #56

Speaking of making a person.. at this startup I worked at years ago (before LinkedIn existed), it was a tiny shop and we were all maxed out time-wise. It was frustrating when we had to deal with incredibly persistent salespeople that wouldn't take no for an answer, and others that preyed on our time relentlessly for no apparent reason. So as a joke we invented a fake employee with a fake name. I think his first name…

Post by b112 » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 2:17 PM UTC

mik1998 wrote: post #73

b112 wrote: post #68

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Unless I’m missing something, it amounts to making a slave race out of someone’s mind scan. So I’m someone who never eats animals nor animal products. I have always wondered why reincarnationists, when I talk to them, presume time is a directly mapped thing. I say to them, how do you not know, there is only one "soul", but you are just seeing it at different points in existence? How do you not know that you are that…

Reminds me of The Egg: http://galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

Post by dwighttk » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 2:18 PM UTC

ghaff wrote: post #81

blinding-streak wrote: post #56

Speaking of making a person.. at this startup I worked at years ago (before LinkedIn existed), it was a tiny shop and we were all maxed out time-wise. It was frustrating when we had to deal with incredibly persistent salespeople that wouldn't take no for an answer, and others that preyed on our time relentlessly for no apparent reason. So as a joke we invented a fake employee with a fake name. I think his first name…

Somewhat inadvertently, as I largely stopped coming into the office well before COVID, I basically turned my work phone into a black hole. It's the number I give on contact forms but I haven't even known how to check voicemail for years. I do have my cell phone in my internal contact info but the culture where I work is that pretty much no one makes a voice call to anyone out of the blue. And I'm very selective who e…

Post by LargoLasskhyfv » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 2:29 PM UTC

blarg1 wrote: post #24

LargoLasskhyfv wrote: post #14

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There's also 'Source Code' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/ Not fully virtual, though. Just the badly maimed torso and head of a victim of a terrorist attack on a train, brain wired to systems, stimulating the last working remains to replay the last 8 minutes over and over again. To gather information and reconstruct 'whodunnit'.

Also the Bobiverse novels https://www.goodreads.com/series/192752-bobiverse

Post by xwowsersx » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 2:35 PM UTC

codeflo wrote: post #3

I encountered the author’s short story that’s linked in the article, Lena [1], a while ago, possibly here on HN. It’s really great, but be warned. It’s one of the most deeply disturbing sci-fi horror stories I’ve ever seen. To be clear, most of the horror is implied rather than described, which I think only makes it worse. Part of me wishes I had never read it. Highly recommended, but if you’re at all in doubt if you…