alt Hacker NewsI am weirded out but this, I find it horrific, like some kind of mind zombie, leeching humanity from your family members.
Someone somewhere is thinking they're connecting with you and sharing their humanity but they're just shoveling their soul into a machine that is "meticulously documenting" them.
Sorry, but ick.
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Btw my family know they are talking to the bot and they know that the bot is taking notes for our benefit. And I am in the channel and I enjoy reading those stories myself and would have never thought to ask those questions myself. Sometimes I ask the follow up questions myself too...
I actually think this is cool. How is this different than sitting people down with a camera every day and asking for a new random story? we won't be around forever and documenting it is one way to keep memories alive in people's minds
To give a different perspective: archival is important. If nobody does this job, generational knowledge is lost at some point.
I talked plenty with my grandpa, but I'm sure he didn't even tell me 20% of his life.
And my other grandpa died when I was still a kid, so I didn't even get to have adult conversations with him.
Imagine making this available to your grandgrandgrandson.