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Live Forever As You Are Now With Alan Resnick | Infomercials | Adult Swim

Adult Swim · comedy · Watch on YouTube

Satire & parodyFuturism & technology and society

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters point to it as satire that illuminates strange transhumanist and digital immortality culture.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “one of the best way to understand some strange corners of the transhumanist culture is through the satire”

    Satire illuminating strange transhumanist culture.

    anonymfus, 2021-04 · Recommendation · in “Deprecated Grandparents of America”

  2. “There's also a great Adult Swim Infomercial satirizing this idea”

    Great Adult Swim infomercial satirizing the idea.

    sudosteph, 2024-01 · Recommendation · in “YouTube Bans True Crime Videos That Reanimate Dead Children with AI”

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

Topics: adult swim, infomercial, satire, transhumanism, avatars

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