Live Forever As You Are Now With Alan Resnick | Infomercials | Adult Swim
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters point to it as satire that illuminates strange transhumanist and digital immortality culture.
What it is
An Adult Swim fake infomercial in which Alan Resnick pitches a four-step program for creating a digital avatar to live forever. It is absurdist satire of tech immortality and digital popularity.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2016 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends anonymfus · 2021-04 · on “Deprecated Grandparents of America”
I think that one of the best way to understand some strange corners of the transhumanist culture is through the satire: [this video]
Recommends sudosteph · 2024-01 · on “YouTube Bans True Crime Videos That Reanimate Dead Children with AI”
There's also a great Adult Swim Infomercial satirizing this idea, "Live Forever As you Are Now with Alan Resnick"[1]. Apparently it came out the same year as that Black Mirror episode (2013) ! [I] [this video]
Cites deftnerd · 2019-09 · on “A Son’s Race to Give His Dying Father Artificial Immortality (2017)”
For a comedic version of this concept, check out the fake infomercial "Live Forever as You Are Now" (1) Great example of the promise of virtual immorality done badly with bad software (1) [this video]