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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brent Allsop via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Microsoft wants to reincarnate people as chatbots<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Spike,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 4:16 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><br>I prefer the term "coincarnate" where they bring me over from the living. It would be a fun toy if it works. <o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…What do you mean by "bring me over from the living"? Brent<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Brent<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Make one of these digital-mes while I am alive and well to train it. I could be such fine companionship for myself. I could tell me jokes, even do the accents better than I can do them. Consider those text to speech sites: you choose the accent. There’s a bunch of accents I can’t really do. But the software could.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have been told that any joke with accents is not proper, but I disagree. Certainly Scottish is fair game. Those guys have a sensa huma. Even failing that, this digital me would be great. We would have such fun together.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tell ya this: I would try to make digital thems of everyone I care about deeply.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>