How to see the dead

chaostheory an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Of course, these days you just need a mixed reality face bucket like the Apple Vision Pro to do essentially the same thing

	▲	AmbroseBierce 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It would help if you spend significant daily time looking at them through such devices while they are still alive, in the sense that it certainly would make it easier to trick your brain into thinking that nothing changed, that they are still around.

▲

neuroelectron 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Of course, by materializing her memories, they are re-establishing or strengthening the neural pathways that would otherwise wither away with time. It's not necessarily grief-dependent memories when she "revisits" her loved ones but over time, the illusion becomes a weird trap that she would grow more aware of, creating an uncanny valley-like situation.

So not necessarily a "hell" but more like unneeded and distracting kitsch cluttering the shelves; turning your memories into cheap trinkets.

▲

luxuryballs 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I thought this was real at first.

	▲	delis-thumbs-7e 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Me too. It took me few paragraphs at least. The speed of progress is such and the description of the technology obfuscated enough that I honestly thought: ”Wait, what? We can do what now?”
	▲	CamperBob2 23 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I wondered if it was something from a really good LLM. I'm tempted to give K2 or Gemini 3 a basic outline and ask it to generate a story of similar length, and see how it compares. And I'm reluctant to do that for the same reason the protagonist was reluctant to help her patient see dead people: what if it works too well?

▲

bitwize 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"Oh, Chew, if only you could see what I have seen... with your eyes."

	▲	mrandish 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Upvoted for perfectly on-point Blade Runner quote. (spoken by a Replicant who toured the universe to the Earth-bound creator of his synthetic eyes.)