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Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers

Tom Scott · comedy · Watch on YouTube

Satire & parodyFuturism & technology and society

What it is

Tom Scott's three-minute satirical short about a corporate-run, DRM-and-ads-laden afterlife after mind uploading. It imagines copyright law and lawyers applied to human memory and consciousness.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it as dystopian satire in threads on DRM, digital ownership, mind uploading and AI copyright, often noting it increasingly looks like reality.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
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What HN commenters said

  1. “Some interesting resources that explore this view”

    Explores a bleak view of mind uploading under capitalism

    selfhoster11, 2022-04 · Recommendation · in “The idea of uploading consciousness is misdirected narcissism”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: mind uploading, drm, copyright, satire, tom scott

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