[ExI] Eternime aims to keep a digital version of you alive

[spike]

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From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf
Of BillK
Subject: Re: [ExI] Eternime aims to keep a digital version of you alive

On 24 April 2017 at 01:17, spike wrote:
>>... Oy vey, I don't like who I wrote.  In person I am much more socially 
> refined, suave, interesting, gentlemanly, charming, and I don't suck.  
> But online, sheesh.  Clumsy, socially unacceptable, ill mannered, I 
> even dress weird online.
>

>...Sounds like you don't use popular social media very much...


Ja, not at all, none of it.  I don't see it as an effective medium to have
meaningful analytical interchanges, the way we are doing now.  Facebook in
particular seems to be filled with such airy fluff, I wonder where are the
products of their thinking?

I do not have, nor do I want a huge following.  The whole notion creeps out
me.  Imagine you were Jesus for instance, the one who did miracles, not the
one who trims the hedges by natural means.  Goes around healing the sick,
making the blind see and so forth.  OK so miracles, but you still need to
take a dump, so you try to find some privacy, and yahoos are all around
begging you to lay hand upon them, cast out the evil spirits, and oh wait,
can you wash your hands first, oy vey gross.

And such as that.  I wouldn't want it.

>...Facebook, Twitter, etc. are propaganda channels to demonstrate how
wonderful your life is and what a wonderful human being you are...

Ja, I don't need that.  I am a legend in my own mind.

>...Of course this implies that personality recordings based on that data
will create a very idealized version of that individual. Not many warts or
faults to be seen. Much like historical heroes. No mention of bad breath,
wife-beating, poor personal hygiene, bullying of associates, etc...

I have found an elegant solution to part of that: get a wife who is bigger
and tougher than I am.  Were I to try anything out of line, she would beat
me beyond recognition.  The rest of it I don't care much about.

>...But it might be helpful for memories of a loved one where you only want
the good memories.

>...BillK
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Ja, I think it is kind of a cool idea really, and one with potential.  I
have long concerned myself about having my memories consisting of all the
goofy stuff I have posted on ExI for the past more than 20 years, but oh
well, there is little I can do about that now.  On the bright side: not many
will care.  I have only one offspring.  If my son holds to the same schedule
in life that I did, I will get exactly one grandchild, at the age of 91.
Granted he might read the stuff and conclude that a quarter of his genes
came from a really weird guy.  Or he might find it somewhat entertaining, ya
never know.

spike