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Paul Bloom on AI simulations of deceased loved ones and the desire for immortality. Should we create digital replicas of the dead? The question forces us to ask what we actually value about persons — their information or their embodiment.
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Canon
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Bloom: a perfect AI simulation of a deceased person is not that person — it's a convincing false self. The true self requires embodied, mortal, vulnerable existence. A simulation has none of these.
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Bloom: people seek AI simulations of deceased loved ones because relationships-predict-satisfaction — losing a relationship creates a void. But the simulation fills the void with a facsimile that prevents genuine mourning.
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