I have always wondered if I should be recording all my conversations privately — with consent —with family and friends and then train an LLM to let anyone speak to someone that sounds "like me" when I am gone.

I suppose one could order all the data over time -— decades — and then train a model incrementally every decade and imitate me better at a point in time.

I suppose one could also narrate thoughts and feelings associated with many transcripts, which would be very tedious but would make the LLM imitate not just style but some amount of internal monologue.

I suppose one level further could be an LLM learning about the variety or parts of the ego, the I, me, mine, ours. Then the Observer and the Observed parts of thought — if we can somehow tap internal thought without manually speaking — because thoughts are, metaphorically speaking, the speed of light.

Why would one do all this? I suppose a curt answer would be to "live" eternally of course — with all the limitations of the current tech — but still try.

It might make a fascinating psychoanalysis project, one that might be a better shot at explaining someone's _self_ not as a we, a stranger, might as outwardly see it: just as a series of highs and lows and nothing in between, but instead as how they lived through it.

You've created a text-based version of a Black Mirror episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back