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cue my dystopian paranoia self: in a few short years technology like this will enable the effortless creation of a perfect, stylish, witty video of each and every day of your life, shot and edited in complete autonomy.

Which shows you at your best.

And expresses none of your fears, anxieties, inelegancies, loneliness, family trauma, time wasting or thoughtless cruelty.

Fast forward another nanosecond in the singularity. Devices like this camera will connect to the internet & ingest your personal timeline. They will respond by themselves to your friends' posts, mimicking their trends, one-upping their flexes, out-cooling them in a constantly accelerating arms race.

Our role in this algorithmic glammering will shrink to nothing as deepfakes expand in scope and become so much interesting than reality.

in the end our bodies will become irrelevant, as we watch our "selves" and our "friends" enact reality in a second, much better, universe.

parent marstall 4 years ago

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