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

Adult Swim · 1.9M views · 2013-12-24 · 11:17

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Overview

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.

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

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2016–2024

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Satire & parody Futurism & technology and society

What people said

sudosteph · 2024-01 · Recommendation
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] [VIDEO]
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anonymfus · 2021-04 · Recommendation
I think that one of the best way to understand some strange corners of the transhumanist culture is through the satire: [VIDEO]
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deftnerd · 2019-09 · Reference
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) [VIDEO]
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