• @[email protected]
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    8417 days ago

    Imagine seeing your dead relative reanimated as a robot so that scientists could study you 🗿

    • @Sterile_Technique
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      2517 days ago

      iirc this was a major concern for face transplants. Person A gets horribly burned; person B dies; A gets B’s face; B’s mom sees A walking around with B’s face and has an existential crisis.

      • kamenLady.
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        1417 days ago

        And where’s person C in all this? Are we just going to ignore them, as always?

        • @Tixanou
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          1517 days ago

          You’re right, we never C him mentioned

        • Rose Thorne
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          517 days ago

          Person C only exists within the crisis.

          Person C may or may not exist, at any given time.

        • @Sterile_Technique
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          317 days ago

          Person C also needs a new face; we have the means to get C the care they need, but insurance says ‘no’. C is becoming radicalized.

      • @TexasDrunk
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        2417 days ago

        I got suspicious when Granny started saying shit like “As an AI Language Model I cannot make sweet potato pie”.

    • @[email protected]
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      717 days ago

      I mean, animals (birds too) def have grieving rituals (“funerals”) and emotional suffering caused by loss of a close one.

      Seeing a reanimated corpse of that same individual would fuck beyond uncanny-valley anyone.

      And even without knowing the individual prior to assimilation, there is no way birds don’t recognise it as something different.
      It just isn’t physically harming them & won’t go away - what are they supposed to do?