Christopher Hitchens (by now, of course, most certainly dead. In fact 15 years this year) had this in Hitch-22, he discusses mortality. They'd (the newspapers) made a mixup and depicted him as "the late Christopher Hichens" ("something that one day will inarguably be true") before furiously apologizing to him, and he goes over some other people through history who have read their own obituaries
Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
.. while taking a drink from a Klein bottle and holding three fingers in front of your face at the same time.
... and exactly three fingers, and not six, for example.
I feel bad for people who have a mutation that caused them to grow an extra finger. Now every picture of them people are going to say its AI.
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#73Glad to know you’re still kicking around, but, to be honest, I had no idea that you were supposed to be an ex-Stoll. Back in the Wage Slave days, a story would go around, about a way to play a dirty trick on a coworker: One day, when they are out, write “DECEASED” on all the mail in their inbox, and drop it in their outbox. It would take months for them to repair the damage. But it could be worse. This was posted her…
>Back in the Wage Slave days Excuse me, but when did we leave those days?
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#74Death by Slop. Personally I'd prefer Death by Snu Snu.
I had Snu Snu
Re: Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
... and exactly three fingers, and not six, for example.
I feel bad for people who have a mutation that caused them to grow an extra finger. Now every picture of them people are going to say its AI.
Reminds me of this short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEVl0NS0vu8
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#76Don’t worry folks, model collapse isn’t real!
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#77In the future, the person could actually be dead, but they would have deployed a persistent agent that's running around representing them. Think of how folks send agents into meeting, we are bound to have agents representing us on the internet because we don't want to deal with the slop. The agent will deny our death and claim we are very much alive, posting as us and representing us ...
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#78Thank you for the update, Cliff. I will update your Wikipedia page to show that your death is currently under dispute.
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#79Oh we already mailed the letter:
"Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. And Mrs. Stoll
Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded or reported missing in action"
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#80That was a Cliff-hanger!