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Live Forever As You Are Now With Alan Resnick | Infomercials | Adult Swim
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters point to it as satire that illuminates strange transhumanist and digital immortality culture.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Adult Swim
- Topic
- digital immortality satire
- Format
- comedy
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I think that one of the best way to understand some strange corners of the transhumanist culture is through the satire: [VIDEO]
anonymfus on Hacker News · 2021-04
In Deprecated Grandparents of AmericaThere'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]
sudosteph on Hacker News · 2024-01
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