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Hi-Phi Nation: The Digital Future of Grief

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The Illusion of an Inner Life

We want to be with the inner life of a person when we're bonded to them. Right now AI, it's a lot more like if your husband knew how to impersonate your mom in texts. If you actually look inside the machine, the computer is not actually words that are there. Every word is translated into a number, and the computer is just computing those numbers. So if perfect's view is correct, you have to encode the inner life, the actual conscious experiences of a person into an AI for that person to survive.

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