• argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    Imagine being told that you’re dead.

    “You died on 2 August 1979. You were on a fishing ship at sea that sank with all hands.”

    You are a computer programmer, you were born in 1985, you’ve never been within 200 miles of any body of water larger than a river, and come to think of it, you’ve always had a peculiar fear of oceans and lakes.

    Did the AI make up a story of your death…or is it somehow aware that that’s the day your previous life ended?