Ran into this, it's just unbelievably sad.

"I never properly grieved until this point" - yeah buddy, it seems like you never started. Everybody grieves in their own way, but this doesn't seem healthy.

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[–] 193 points 1 year ago (16 children)

There is a black mirror episode that is exactly this. Fuck I hate it. Black mirror is not a dystopia anymore, is present time.

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  • [–] 98 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Black Mirror was specifically created to take something from present day and extrapolate it to the near future. There will be several "prophetic" items in those episodes.

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  • [–] 81 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Reckon Trump will fuck a pig on a livestream to avoid releasing the Epstein files?

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There was the allegation that David Cameron, former British PM fucked a pig. Guardian news article

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    Iirc, it's this one https://m.imdb.com/it/title/tt2290780/

    It's from fucking 2013 and they saw this happening.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    It’s from fucking 2013 and they saw this happening.

    I mean, it's just an extrapolation of the human condition. That hasn't really changed much in the last thousand years, let alone in the last ten. The thing with all this "clairvoyant" sci-fi that people always cite is that the sci-fi is always less about the actual technology and more about putting normal human characters in potential future scenarios and writing them realistically using the current understanding of human disposition. Given that, it's not really surprising to see real humans mirroring fictional humans (from good fiction) in similar situations. Disappointing maybe, but not surprising.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Back in 2010, one of my coworkers pitched this exact idea to me. He wanted to start a business that would allow people to upload writing samples, pictures, and video from a loved one. Then create a virtual personality that would respond as that person.

    I lost touch with the guy. Maybe he went on to become a Black Mirror writer. Or got involved with ChatGPT.

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