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

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

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2 HN recommenders · discussed 2016–2024
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About this video

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.

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From the Hacker News discussion

anonymfus · 2021-04 · rec

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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sudosteph · 2024-01 · rec

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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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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voynich61 · 2016-01 · joke

lmao @ ppl taking this guy seriously Highlights from his wikipedia page ( [LINK] ): > In 2001, Ferriss founded BrainQUICKEN, an online nutritional supplements company which made a product that was marketed as both BodyQuick and Brain Quicken.[22] It was claimed that this product would dramatically increase short term memory and reaction speed, taking effect within 60 minutes, but these claims made about this combination of ingredients have never been scientifically validated > Notable works: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef > his campaigns, such as dedicating his birthday to raising funds and heading LitLiberation to increase literacy worldwide > The New Yorker Magazine described Ferriss as "this generation's self help guru" EDIT: all these downvotes! How doesn't he remind you of this guy?: [VIDEO]

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